Apple's old keyboards were great. Then came the iMac... cute as it was, the keyboard and mouse were absolute crap. Then again, the whole industry is like that nowadays, if you want a good old mechanical keyboard you have to buy one separately.
And here is today's lesson, kids: if you find you have cancer, do what your doctor tells you to right away, and don't waste time with alternative medicine bullshit.
Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify them or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people. Because while some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
And it's the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world who actually do.
I hate the Start menu as an app launcher because they didn't even get the app list right. Linux did. At least on any Gnome or KDE system (I don't have much experience with other environments), the app list has a proper arrangement by categories: Graphics, Internet, Multimedia, Office, Settings... and from there, apps organized alphabetically. But on Windows, there is no such arrangement, everything goes together. It's a mess.
A rule of thumb for the "understandable accent": if someone educated in that has a hard time understanding what you say, your accent is probably too thick.
I must disagree. If you want to jump right into a vendor lock-in trap, go ahead. But a government can not be allowed to do so, for it affects everyone. This ought to be established by law: all software used by the government must be fully open.
Nothing quite beats the misery of walking out of a nice, 23 degree mall into the blistering, 37 degree heat in the summer time, only to sit down in your 71 degree car, cursing and swearing at all that damned free energy the sun packed into your car.
Fixed that for you. Now stop using those damn Fred Flintstone units!
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75% of the US's population will reside in Georgia.
Why would so many Americans move to Eastern Europe?
"Siri" is the Portuguese word for "swimming crab" (Callinectes).
Look into the Creative Commons system.
Why would anybody be against copyright?
In Against Intellectual Monopoly, economists Michele Boldrin and David Levine make a case against copyrights. Read it here.
"The government is a whore of the corporations."
There, I fixed that for ya.
Hippocrates.
That word does not mean what you think it means.
Apple's old keyboards were great. Then came the iMac... cute as it was, the keyboard and mouse were absolute crap. Then again, the whole industry is like that nowadays, if you want a good old mechanical keyboard you have to buy one separately.
And here is today's lesson, kids: if you find you have cancer, do what your doctor tells you to right away, and don't waste time with alternative medicine bullshit.
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Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify them or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
Because while some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
And it's the people who are crazy enough to think they can
change the world who actually do.
I hate the Start menu as an app launcher because they didn't even get the app list right. Linux did. At least on any Gnome or KDE system (I don't have much experience with other environments), the app list has a proper arrangement by categories: Graphics, Internet, Multimedia, Office, Settings... and from there, apps organized alphabetically. But on Windows, there is no such arrangement, everything goes together. It's a mess.
Why do people ignore the laws against filesharing? Because they do not understand why they exist.
Certainly there are people who ignore such laws because they do understand why they exist.
Whoosh.
Brazil's own deep structural problems such as a lack of skilled labor and bad infrastructure
I assure you, bad infrastructure is something we don't lack.
There is no such thing as a "Received Pronunciation" in American English.
You don't need a Received Pronunciation, just forget American English and learn the Received Pronunciation.
What is this 'unaccented English' of which you speak?
I'd say the Queen's English.
A rule of thumb for the "understandable accent": if someone educated in that has a hard time understanding what you say, your accent is probably too thick.
Our children will treat the clone wars cartoons as the epitome.
If you mean Genndy Tartakovsky's 2003 Clone Wars shorts, they might even be correct.
All the TV shows I already don't watch because I'd rather play video games, now on my video game console. What a deal!
Unreal has a permanent spot on my hard drive. Not UT, Unreal, the first one.
Maybe not. For a game with some awesome writing, play the Marathon trilogy. But expect nothing like SC2, it is hard sci-fi with little comedy.
Yeah, I like racing games, but why bother with this... a racing game without music during the races, what the fuck?!
I must disagree. If you want to jump right into a vendor lock-in trap, go ahead. But a government can not be allowed to do so, for it affects everyone. This ought to be established by law: all software used by the government must be fully open.
You mean something like this?
Nothing quite beats the misery of walking out of a nice, 23 degree mall into the blistering, 37 degree heat in the summer time, only to sit down in your 71 degree car, cursing and swearing at all that damned free energy the sun packed into your car.
Fixed that for you. Now stop using those damn Fred Flintstone units!
The screen ration change was a scam, a way for screen makers to sell us LESS screen for the same price.
Also, his widow was an adamant supporter of gay rights -- by the same principles.