No need for "easily-swallowable" ("easy to swallow" maybe?) generalizations when the article's author provides first-hand analysis. My favourite:
"There are also some advantages of a firewall onboard. Windows Firewall offers solid basic protection; it's better than ICF (Internet Connection Firewall, the utility it replaces), and it's a lot better than nothing."
More "friendly" I think. Reminds me of my aunt who not incidentally is friendly.
What is funny is that your post illustrates that given the pseudo-anonymous experience of the internet, we take someone's words at their face value (pun intended) without regard for the person's appearance (because we don't know it), whereas in Real Life human nature dictates that we judge the value of a person's words based on that person's appearance. The unfortunate downside is that comments made by a language-, spelling- or grammatically-impaired person can be easily dismissed as belonging to an illiterate whose words can't possibly be worth the time to read.
So, the quandry is do I place value in the words of your average illiterate Slashdot poster who really does have something to say, or do I change my mind about Mr. Nielson because his friendly face suggests that maybe everything he says can't be as bad as something of the things he's quoted as saying in that interview?
I'm good looking BTW. May aunt says so all the time.
When I was a kid and would ask aloud where something was, my mum would say, "Look where you put it." It annoyed me to no end, of course, but years later I find myself "putting things where they belong" and emptying my mind of everything else, much like putting phone numbers in a phone book so one doesn't have to clutter up one's my mind remembering any of them.
My own opinion is that there is no substitute for "putting things in folders." Boring, but true. Regular expressions and databases can go a long way (even for the average Joe), but it's as brainless as it is fast to look in an appropriately named folder. Not everyone agrees, of course:
I won't repeat what others have already repeated about BSD being an excellent choice for a desktop, but this comment reminds me of first 2+ years of Microsoft marketing for NT5.0 (Windows 2000). It was being billed exclusively as a "corporate OS" and not suitable for home use. Of course, when NT5.1 (Windows XP) was released, the marketing changed, despite the fact that the differences between the two operating systems were minor.
And the critical faculties of someone who posts a comment consisting mostly of inflamatory rhetoric fashioned from the buzzwords, clicheed slogans, and truisms masked as facts repeated ad nauseum on talk show airwaves across the country are not in any way impaired?
What would make us all really happy is if we, as ordinary citizens, would have available the same legal manoeuvering as corporations.
"Officer, I request a temporary waiver from Vehicle Code 22348 because I'm running late for work and my boss is going to kill me." Or, if that doesn't fly, "Your honour, I request an exemption from the implementation of this fine."
IIRC, yahoo recently advertised an "image free" interface. Never use it myself, but I just checked and there's only a couple of small gifs on the page.
I don't know whether I'm embarassed or proud that I really don't know what Passport is all about or how it works, but I was "required" to get one to be able to download the Services From Unix package. The email address I provided to Microsoft was a DSL sub-account (used for throwaway registrations) and not a hotmail account.
I suppose now I have to figure out what, if anything, happened to my system as a result of the transaction.
My own opinion is that it and similar misspellings arose some time after Latin was dropped from your local high school curriculum. That was a few years before the humanities became an exercise in political correctness, History was reborn as Social Studies, and learning a foreign language (any language) became something only immigrants did.
More snide and elitist commentary available on request.
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"Is that supposed to be a joke?"
I'd characterise the judgment as creative if not novel plea bargaining by a good lawyer.
If it helps, think of it as the Al Gore version of picking up trash from the side of a freeway. Personally, I'd rather see him picking up trash. Without the orange vest.
"The day the online LA Times started requiring subscriptions......I stopped reading the LA Times online."
You're not missing much. I'd even go so far to say that if you stopped reading the print edition you wouldn't be missing much, but that comment would likely draw fire from folks in Chicago.
Folks in LA don't seem to object that that their city distinguishes itself as the only major metropolitan city without its own newspaper. If they feel comfortable looking elsewhere for breadth in coverage, so can the rest of us.
Out of curiousity, what exactly does a "heavily modified command line" do that a standard C: prompt or, alternatively, a --bash --login (cygwin with either cmd.exe or rxvt.exe) doesn't already do? And what do any of them have to do with what your shell setting is?
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No need for "easily-swallowable" ("easy to swallow" maybe?) generalizations when the article's author provides first-hand analysis. My favourite:
"There are also some advantages of a firewall onboard. Windows Firewall offers solid basic protection; it's better than ICF (Internet Connection Firewall, the utility it replaces), and it's a lot better than nothing."
Windows. Better than Nothing.
He's not *that* funny looking.
More "friendly" I think. Reminds me of my aunt who not incidentally is friendly.
What is funny is that your post illustrates that given the pseudo-anonymous experience of the internet, we take someone's words at their face value (pun intended) without regard for the person's appearance (because we don't know it), whereas in Real Life human nature dictates that we judge the value of a person's words based on that person's appearance. The unfortunate downside is that comments made by a language-, spelling- or grammatically-impaired person can be easily dismissed as belonging to an illiterate whose words can't possibly be worth the time to read.
So, the quandry is do I place value in the words of your average illiterate Slashdot poster who really does have something to say, or do I change my mind about Mr. Nielson because his friendly face suggests that maybe everything he says can't be as bad as something of the things he's quoted as saying in that interview?
I'm good looking BTW. May aunt says so all the time.
"Little correction : Macedonia was part of Yougoslavia"
;-)
Yugoslavia, or Jugoslavia, or Jugoslavija, etc, but not Yougoslavia.
Little correction backatcha.
When I was a kid and would ask aloud where something was, my mum would say, "Look where you put it." It annoyed me to no end, of course, but years later I find myself "putting things where they belong" and emptying my mind of everything else, much like putting phone numbers in a phone book so one doesn't have to clutter up one's my mind remembering any of them.
My own opinion is that there is no substitute for "putting things in folders." Boring, but true. Regular expressions and databases can go a long way (even for the average Joe), but it's as brainless as it is fast to look in an appropriately named folder. Not everyone agrees, of course:
Apple Unveils Faster Searching
Apple Throws Spotlight on Search
"The compression waves travelling through the traffic are the reason that everything goes stop/start once traffic slows below a certain speed..."
;-)
Interesting. I think I'll make it into a bumper sticker.
Check back in a few days and I'll let you know how effective it is calming down the idiot honking his horn behing me.
"BSD is a server OS (no question about it)"
I won't repeat what others have already repeated about BSD being an excellent choice for a desktop, but this comment reminds me of first 2+ years of Microsoft marketing for NT5.0 (Windows 2000). It was being billed exclusively as a "corporate OS" and not suitable for home use. Of course, when NT5.1 (Windows XP) was released, the marketing changed, despite the fact that the differences between the two operating systems were minor.
And the critical faculties of someone who posts a comment consisting mostly of inflamatory rhetoric fashioned from the buzzwords, clicheed slogans, and truisms masked as facts repeated ad nauseum on talk show airwaves across the country are not in any way impaired?
Morely? Ustinov? How can anyone on your list compare to this?
"When I become supreme overlord Jack Valenti and Orrin Hatch are the first to be sent to the camps."
Not to be too critical, but political posturing demands that you stay abreast of current events.
What would make us all really happy is if we, as ordinary citizens, would have available the same legal manoeuvering as corporations.
"Officer, I request a temporary waiver from Vehicle Code 22348 because I'm running late for work and my boss is going to kill me." Or, if that doesn't fly, "Your honour, I request an exemption from the implementation of this fine."
They're like Slashdot mod points. Use 'em or lose 'em.
Sheesh. Is changing the default search engine to Google and typing your search querries directly into address bar that hard?
If it is, be sure to check out the multiple search engine Firefox toolbar.
More than 35 according to this page.
And still they won't believe.
Try remapping the key to something else?
IIRC, yahoo recently advertised an "image free" interface. Never use it myself, but I just checked and there's only a couple of small gifs on the page.
I don't know whether I'm embarassed or proud that I really don't know what Passport is all about or how it works, but I was "required" to get one to be able to download the Services From Unix package. The email address I provided to Microsoft was a DSL sub-account (used for throwaway registrations) and not a hotmail account.
I suppose now I have to figure out what, if anything, happened to my system as a result of the transaction.
Since you brought it up, this article, Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World is definitely worth a look.
Maybe someone else can provide statistics more relevant to the discussion?
"8 Hours?!? WTF is that. That's hardly enough time to watch some movies."
If it helps, think of the scheme like paying for a hooker. The French version may be better, but you get less time.
Where does it come from? Maybe this randomly selected link provides a clue?
My own opinion is that it and similar misspellings arose some time after Latin was dropped from your local high school curriculum. That was a few years before the humanities became an exercise in political correctness, History was reborn as Social Studies, and learning a foreign language (any language) became something only immigrants did.
More snide and elitist commentary available on request.
"Is that supposed to be a joke?"
I'd characterise the judgment as creative if not novel plea bargaining by a good lawyer.
If it helps, think of it as the Al Gore version of picking up trash from the side of a freeway. Personally, I'd rather see him picking up trash. Without the orange vest.
"The day the online LA Times started requiring subscriptions... ...I stopped reading the LA Times online."
You're not missing much. I'd even go so far to say that if you stopped reading the print edition you wouldn't be missing much, but that comment would likely draw fire from folks in Chicago.
Folks in LA don't seem to object that that their city distinguishes itself as the only major metropolitan city without its own newspaper. If they feel comfortable looking elsewhere for breadth in coverage, so can the rest of us.
Yeah, but in Dubya's defense, the common canine isn't as able to pronounce all those words. Or even try and make a sentence with some of them.
Out of curiousity, what exactly does a "heavily modified command line" do that a standard C: prompt or, alternatively, a --bash --login (cygwin with either cmd.exe or rxvt.exe) doesn't already do? And what do any of them have to do with what your shell setting is?
If your day job doesn't work out, consider writing book reviews for a living. If it does, consider it anyway.