I'm not saying that anyone should build their own computer or house or car. I'm saying that people should be able to USE their own computer, Maintain their own house, and drive their own car.
You're building your own plane. That's really cool! Will it be easy enough to use that I could fly it with no training? if not, it's worthless. This is the attitude i get from countless aquantances and family. This is the source of my contempt.
Well a lot of us act have contempt for the "average user". I personally have contempt for anyone who equates 'different' with 'hard'. I have contempt for anyone who is unwilling to learn to use a tool in order to benefit from it. I have contempt for people unwilling to explore. I have contempt for people who expect new tools to be handed to them on a silver platter. Quite frankly, it's greedy and insulting.
If you want to do something, learn to do it. Don't bitch that it's too hard, don't whine until someone makes it easier. Don't call up your boyfriend/son/coworker/roomate/neighborhood nerd to solve something that can be looked up with a 3 second google search.
For christ's sake, it's the 21'st century. We need a license to drive a car. We need a license to use a HAM radio. There should be a licensing system for the internet.
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I'm not saying that anyone should build their own computer or house or car. I'm saying that people should be able to USE their own computer, Maintain their own house, and drive their own car.
You're building your own plane. That's really cool! Will it be easy enough to use that I could fly it with no training? if not, it's worthless. This is the attitude i get from countless aquantances and family. This is the source of my contempt.
Well a lot of us act have contempt for the "average user". I personally have contempt for anyone who equates 'different' with 'hard'. I have contempt for anyone who is unwilling to learn to use a tool in order to benefit from it. I have contempt for people unwilling to explore. I have contempt for people who expect new tools to be handed to them on a silver platter. Quite frankly, it's greedy and insulting.
If you want to do something, learn to do it. Don't bitch that it's too hard, don't whine until someone makes it easier. Don't call up your boyfriend/son/coworker/roomate/neighborhood nerd to solve something that can be looked up with a 3 second google search.
For christ's sake, it's the 21'st century. We need a license to drive a car. We need a license to use a HAM radio. There should be a licensing system for the internet.
dammit.
Nope. Just possible upstreaming of patches to gpl projects. nothing to see here really.
in basic, no less!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)#The_chicken_and_egg_problem
No it wasn't; if it were, how was it compiled?
likely C++ features grew in C compilers (like cancer), sort of like how C99 features were implemented in GCC.
except the Russians haven't had tzars since before the Bolshevik revolution; so it kind of breaks with the whole communist theme...
Didn't he already have a second term?
People who use tablets for more than fart apps and Angry Birds?
Those people exist?
Only problem: the XBOX is not expensive. $300 will get you an xbox, or a really underpowered computer.
it...walks forward
This is exactly what i thought of...I'm surprised this comment is so far down!
soo...debian stable?
or...download and install firefox.
works fine here. no ppa, no 'hack', 10.04.
no, there's usually some crap on there.
Why would player C buy it from player B for real money, when they could buy it from blizzard for real money?
Thank you! that is actually the best pro-deficit-spending argument I've ever heard; i'm usually on the other side of that debate.
Bravo sir!
perhaps the university is run by "smug trust-fund liberals" in an official capacity?
when i read "not wasting" i thing of fiscal conservatism FWIW.
note, however, both definitions of "not wasting" are good things(TM).
nope, he's still liberal. He's just been stiemied from doing too much damage, that's all.
This is slashdot. I believe it.
nomad, like the media player? Do people still have those?
why is this score:0? mods, this needs corrected. UPMOD! GO!
Flat does not necessarily mean tangential to the surface of the earth. Could be flat, but vertical, or at any other alignment.
Correction. One.