Huh. Thanks. I never knew what that option did so I never turned it on, and the changing focus has been annoying me recently. No more paging down the wrong tab!
For a lot of teenagers, LJ is a place to complain about mom and dad, amongst other things. They certainly wouldn't want their parents knowing about their LJ, even if their parents would be willing to let them use the credit card.
I don't use my Yahoo! e-mail for much (some site registrations, mostly), but I do use the calendar. I love that I can put in an event--I mostly use it for birthdays, weddings, graduations, etc.--and have it e-mail me reminders at the e-mail address I do check all the time at times I designate. For example, I have birthdays set to send me reminders one week and one day in advance. That way if I've spaced it out, I have enough time between the reminder and the birthday to buy a gift and put it in the mail and I have that last minute reminder so that if I also want to send an e-card or an e-mail on the actual day, I'll remember it.
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For a lot of people, the stand-alone thing actually is a Big Deal. Personally, I prefer having my mail and browser integrated. Obviously this is at least partially because I used Netscape for both for many, many, many years (from at least 3 all the way through 7, at which point I heard about Mozilla and switched). Part of it is that I like being able to be browsing and hit Ctrl+2 to get to my mail, or be in my mail and hit Ctrl+1 to get to my browser. I'm much happier with quick keyboard shortcuts than I am with mousing. And Alt+Tab (yeah, yeah, Windows) takes too long to cycle through if you have a lot of stuff open.
My second reason for choosing Mozilla over Firefox+Thunderbird has to do with how they look. My brother prefers Firefox because he thinks it's better looking than Mozilla; I prefer Mozilla because I think it's better looking than Firefox. Sure, I could install some other theme, but why bother when I like Mozilla's default Modern (with text only buttons, of course)?
That would be the obvious marketing technique. The nonprofit I work at received a donated Verbatim in that neat transparent red, and I just assumed it came in other colors. I was quite surprised to find out that's the only color. I think I've seen a few online that came in multiple colors, but they weren't brands I'd ever heard of.
My best guess is that these are still too techie-only for companies to think it's worth marketing them to Average Jane/Joe User.
Ah, Herodotus. Herodotus used logic and common sense to come up with fascinating conclusions. He tells us, for instance, that legend says that gold comes from the north where it's stolen from the gryphons by a race of one-armed men. This, he says, is completely untrue because there can't be a race of one-armed men.
The Greeks were not interested in equality for the lgbt community. They just thought women weren't smart enough for men to have real relationships with them.
I've never seen the entire original trilogy. The extent of my knowledge is gleaned from Spaceballs, pop culture references, and a few scenes from A New Hope. I didn't like Episodes I and II, and it has nothing to do with any comparison the other original trilogy.
Some problems: Special effects over storytelling. This is the same problem I had with The Matrix (yes, I'm a nerd heretic all the way around). Movies are a visual medium, yes, but that doesn't mean you can abandon storytelling. For example, Lucas took one of the best love story plots--one person protecting another who's not really interested, they fall in love--and made it both unbelievable and deadly dull.
Uninspiring visuals. Having known going into them that Lucas was so focused on special effects, I was extremely surprised by how bad both movies looked. I found this to be more of a problem in Episode II, which has only two or three well-framed shots. Of course, imdb's trivia tells me that at least one of those is a copy of a shot from the original trilogy, so he really didn't do much here.
Bad editing. This has been mentioned in a comment above in relationship to cutting a scene that made Episode I make more sense. I had a problem with the editing of the climactic battle scene in Episode I. Just as the suspense was starting to build, he cut away to some other piece of the action. I found this technique worked for me in Star Trek: Nemesis, but not here.
Stupid (in a coolness sense) characters. Anakin in Episode I is so annoying a child that he has no choice but to go to the Dark Side. Anakin in Episode II is exactly like my brother at age 15 (think sulky teenager), which makes it hard to take him seriously.
Stupid (in an intelligence sense) characters. Why couldn't Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan figure out that Padme was really Amidala? She was so unsubtle.
In my senior year AP/IB English class in high school, we had that option with a human grader.
Here's how it worked: Turn in a paper, even if it's just an introduction, on the date it's due. Get a grade. We could then rewrite/resubmit the paper as many times as we wanted until we got the grade we wanted. The limit was some period of time before the end of the semester that was sufficient for the teacher to have a chance to grade everything before she had to turn in grades.
Given that we were all smart kids who tended to procrastinate, my friends and I often turned in nothing more than an introduction on the due date. Considering the other things we ruined for future classes via our gaming of the system, I wouldn't be surprised if the teacher later changed her policy.
I certainly hope your essay was better written than this comment. If it wasn't, and you still got 5/6, that's pretty good evidence that the computer isn't doing accurate grading. IANAET (I am not an English Teacher), but I would grade this comment 3/6. Some comments:
Do you have any evidence or thought behind your statement that "A computer can obviously not grade essays fairly, so it shouldn't be done"? Why is that obvious? Is it obvious only because the grading of your essay was, in your opinion, not fair?
I suggest you review difference in usage between "good" and "well." Proper grammar/word choice is a large part of what makes a good essay.
How is the conversion from the computer's 6 point scale to your teacher's/school's 100 point scale the fault of the computer? It appears that what you really mean is that the implementation of the computer grading system is not fair as it doesn't use an appropriate scale.
And I'm guessing a lot of people won't want to change their groups over to Google. I've been on very active lists that started back in the egroups or onelist days and have now been part of Yahoo!Groups for years. Those message/file/photo archives are still important and would be lost in changing to Google.
Am I the only one surprised to see a fan fic site on the nominations list? Particularly this fan fiction site, which, if the stories I've heard are true, was created to give a home to an author who was kicked off of fanfiction.net for plagiarism. And not just plagiarism of some other fan fic author either. No, this girl, whose trilogy is immensely popular in the Harry Potter fan fic world, ripped off Pamela Dean and may also have stolen dialogue from Buffy. Is this the kind of thing we want representing online community, even in a nominations list?
You've just made the slashdot grammar blunder found in far too many story posts: incorrect usage of nested quote marks.
Your sentence should read, "The sentence should read, 'The sentence should read, "I'm far more worried about the divorce lawyer or the ex-employee with an axe to grind than I am about the Government."'"
I never saw the second or third movies (I'm that last person on earth who didn't like the first one, to a degree that gets larger every time I hear about how great it was), so maybe this inconsistency gets worked out there, but the end of the first one has always bothered me. Neo, at this point, understands and can manipulate the matrix. Yet he still has to run to a phone. I can accept that he has to be at a phone to get out of the matrix, but why does he run to it? Why can't he just manipulate the matrix--fold the internal space-time continuum--and appear in a phonebooth?
Actually, figuring out what the things in Task Manager are isn't as technical as it looks. I happen to like Answers That Work's list. It's a little heavy on "use our tool to turn this off," but if you know enough to be looking at your Task Manager, you probably also know enough to be able to turn off the services yourself. (Control Panel > Administrative > Services)
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Huh. Thanks. I never knew what that option did so I never turned it on, and the changing focus has been annoying me recently. No more paging down the wrong tab!
For a lot of teenagers, LJ is a place to complain about mom and dad, amongst other things. They certainly wouldn't want their parents knowing about their LJ, even if their parents would be willing to let them use the credit card.
Now there's a euphemism I hadn't heard before.
Wouldn't that be CowboyNeal's CAT-5 Effect?
I don't use my Yahoo! e-mail for much (some site registrations, mostly), but I do use the calendar. I love that I can put in an event--I mostly use it for birthdays, weddings, graduations, etc.--and have it e-mail me reminders at the e-mail address I do check all the time at times I designate. For example, I have birthdays set to send me reminders one week and one day in advance. That way if I've spaced it out, I have enough time between the reminder and the birthday to buy a gift and put it in the mail and I have that last minute reminder so that if I also want to send an e-card or an e-mail on the actual day, I'll remember it.
I'm a woman, you insensitive clod!
For a lot of people, the stand-alone thing actually is a Big Deal. Personally, I prefer having my mail and browser integrated. Obviously this is at least partially because I used Netscape for both for many, many, many years (from at least 3 all the way through 7, at which point I heard about Mozilla and switched). Part of it is that I like being able to be browsing and hit Ctrl+2 to get to my mail, or be in my mail and hit Ctrl+1 to get to my browser. I'm much happier with quick keyboard shortcuts than I am with mousing. And Alt+Tab (yeah, yeah, Windows) takes too long to cycle through if you have a lot of stuff open.
My second reason for choosing Mozilla over Firefox+Thunderbird has to do with how they look. My brother prefers Firefox because he thinks it's better looking than Mozilla; I prefer Mozilla because I think it's better looking than Firefox. Sure, I could install some other theme, but why bother when I like Mozilla's default Modern (with text only buttons, of course)?
I wonder what OJ Simpson thinks about all this....
Oh, I'm sure he's out there looking for the real author of the Linux kernal.
I've heard of IP over Avian Carriers and Pigeon Rank, but outsourcing call centers to ducks is new to me.
Now if only they could combine this with the duckie vibe then we'd have the ultimate accessory for the female geek.
That would be the obvious marketing technique. The nonprofit I work at received a donated Verbatim in that neat transparent red, and I just assumed it came in other colors. I was quite surprised to find out that's the only color. I think I've seen a few online that came in multiple colors, but they weren't brands I'd ever heard of.
My best guess is that these are still too techie-only for companies to think it's worth marketing them to Average Jane/Joe User.
Imagine a Beowolf cluster...
To comply with US Government standards, my "Hi, Mom!" signs use only Times New Roman 14.
That's unpossible!
Ah, Herodotus. Herodotus used logic and common sense to come up with fascinating conclusions. He tells us, for instance, that legend says that gold comes from the north where it's stolen from the gryphons by a race of one-armed men. This, he says, is completely untrue because there can't be a race of one-armed men.
The Greeks were not interested in equality for the lgbt community. They just thought women weren't smart enough for men to have real relationships with them.
I've never seen the entire original trilogy. The extent of my knowledge is gleaned from Spaceballs, pop culture references, and a few scenes from A New Hope. I didn't like Episodes I and II, and it has nothing to do with any comparison the other original trilogy.
Some problems:
Special effects over storytelling. This is the same problem I had with The Matrix (yes, I'm a nerd heretic all the way around). Movies are a visual medium, yes, but that doesn't mean you can abandon storytelling. For example, Lucas took one of the best love story plots--one person protecting another who's not really interested, they fall in love--and made it both unbelievable and deadly dull.
Uninspiring visuals. Having known going into them that Lucas was so focused on special effects, I was extremely surprised by how bad both movies looked. I found this to be more of a problem in Episode II, which has only two or three well-framed shots. Of course, imdb's trivia tells me that at least one of those is a copy of a shot from the original trilogy, so he really didn't do much here.
Bad editing. This has been mentioned in a comment above in relationship to cutting a scene that made Episode I make more sense. I had a problem with the editing of the climactic battle scene in Episode I. Just as the suspense was starting to build, he cut away to some other piece of the action. I found this technique worked for me in Star Trek: Nemesis, but not here.
Stupid (in a coolness sense) characters. Anakin in Episode I is so annoying a child that he has no choice but to go to the Dark Side. Anakin in Episode II is exactly like my brother at age 15 (think sulky teenager), which makes it hard to take him seriously.
Stupid (in an intelligence sense) characters. Why couldn't Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan figure out that Padme was really Amidala? She was so unsubtle.
In my senior year AP/IB English class in high school, we had that option with a human grader.
Here's how it worked: Turn in a paper, even if it's just an introduction, on the date it's due. Get a grade. We could then rewrite/resubmit the paper as many times as we wanted until we got the grade we wanted. The limit was some period of time before the end of the semester that was sufficient for the teacher to have a chance to grade everything before she had to turn in grades.
Given that we were all smart kids who tended to procrastinate, my friends and I often turned in nothing more than an introduction on the due date. Considering the other things we ruined for future classes via our gaming of the system, I wouldn't be surprised if the teacher later changed her policy.
I certainly hope your essay was better written than this comment. If it wasn't, and you still got 5/6, that's pretty good evidence that the computer isn't doing accurate grading. IANAET (I am not an English Teacher), but I would grade this comment 3/6. Some comments:
Do you have any evidence or thought behind your statement that "A computer can obviously not grade essays fairly, so it shouldn't be done"? Why is that obvious? Is it obvious only because the grading of your essay was, in your opinion, not fair?
I suggest you review difference in usage between "good" and "well." Proper grammar/word choice is a large part of what makes a good essay.
How is the conversion from the computer's 6 point scale to your teacher's/school's 100 point scale the fault of the computer? It appears that what you really mean is that the implementation of the computer grading system is not fair as it doesn't use an appropriate scale.
And I'm guessing a lot of people won't want to change their groups over to Google. I've been on very active lists that started back in the egroups or onelist days and have now been part of Yahoo!Groups for years. Those message/file/photo archives are still important and would be lost in changing to Google.
Advantage: Embrace and extend.
Am I the only one surprised to see a fan fic site on the nominations list? Particularly this fan fiction site, which, if the stories I've heard are true, was created to give a home to an author who was kicked off of fanfiction.net for plagiarism. And not just plagiarism of some other fan fic author either. No, this girl, whose trilogy is immensely popular in the Harry Potter fan fic world, ripped off Pamela Dean and may also have stolen dialogue from Buffy. Is this the kind of thing we want representing online community, even in a nominations list?
You've just made the slashdot grammar blunder found in far too many story posts: incorrect usage of nested quote marks.
Your sentence should read, "The sentence should read, 'The sentence should read, "I'm far more worried about the divorce lawyer or the ex-employee with an axe to grind than I am about the Government."'"
I never saw the second or third movies (I'm that last person on earth who didn't like the first one, to a degree that gets larger every time I hear about how great it was), so maybe this inconsistency gets worked out there, but the end of the first one has always bothered me. Neo, at this point, understands and can manipulate the matrix. Yet he still has to run to a phone. I can accept that he has to be at a phone to get out of the matrix, but why does he run to it? Why can't he just manipulate the matrix--fold the internal space-time continuum--and appear in a phonebooth?
Actually, figuring out what the things in Task Manager are isn't as technical as it looks. I happen to like Answers That Work's list. It's a little heavy on "use our tool to turn this off," but if you know enough to be looking at your Task Manager, you probably also know enough to be able to turn off the services yourself. (Control Panel > Administrative > Services)
No, no, no. You've got your cliche all wrong.
Clippy's back.
And this time it's personal.