"Doubleclick it until it opens up a Finder window, and then drag the icon into the Application folder on the left hand side of the Finder window".
Um, yeah. In December, my parents asked me to set up file sharing between Dad's Mac and Mom's PC, and the documentation on the Mac talked about a Finder window and some other stuff. I had to do a web search to learn how to decipher the MacSpeak. Intuitive, it's not. I sure was glad to go home to my Linux laptop.
Actually, most of the Mozart that I've ever heard has a fairly small dynamic range. He seemed to rely on weaving together patterns of notes. You'll generally see more of that with Beethoven and some of the others.
Landis grew up a Mennonite, sometimes refered to German Baptists, often mistaken as Amish.
The Amish and the Mennonites are closely linked and both groups are descended from German Baptists. The practices of the Amish are distributed over a significant range; there are even some who will use a stationary gasoline or diesel engine to power equipment in the barn. They carefully consider the costs and benefits of innovation and how it would affect their way of life.
Also, the young people can be rebellious just like young people in the population at large. The rebellion might take the form of a battery-powered radio, or a car. The community tolerates this to a point. Eventually, the young person has to decide whether to commit to the Amish way or not, and the real trouble only comes if he apostasizes (i.e., says he will follow the Amish way and changes his mind).
I learned this from a book by a college professor who was raised in the Amish faith and chose to become a Mennonite when he came of age.
A company wants to end all its part numbers in a veiled reference to New Testiment verses? What's the big deal.
None to me, since I'm Jewish. But if I were a Christian, I'd be plenty upset. The whole thrust of the New Testament is about the Prince of Peace, and someone's associating it with weapons? It wasn't the church vs. state issue some made it out to be, it was a question of profaning the holy.
The teachers I have learned the most from have always been the ones with a reputation for being difficult -- with the exception of the freshman sociology prof who couldn't stand the fact that his course was regarded as an easy A and set out to make it difficult. And even from him, I learned a thing or two to avoid doing if I did not wish to be considered an ass.
I haven't received a bonus in about two years. It was a $1000 check. And the only reason I got that little gift is that I MADE money for my company. One of the perks of being a contractor for a small company. Of course, that contract ended, so I went to work for a larger IT company, and haven't received a bonus since. Working directly for a company is nice, but contracting pays better.
I thought that if you're a contractor, you're the company you work for. So if there are no bonuses, shouldn't you complain to your management?
Liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations. There are three sources of errors in conveying biblical meaning are, in increasing amount:
lack of precision in the original language, such as terms underdeveloped to convey new concepts introduced by Christ
lack of precision in modern language
translation bias, mainly of the liberal kind, in converting the original language to the modern one.
That's almost funny. The liberal bias in the King James version has a lot to do with why I am a liberal.
Doesn't this whole story belong under http://idle.slashdot.org? Unless such a back door is found, we have no proof that it is there, and no matter how many denials we get from Microsoft and NSA that there is no back door, there is no guarantee there isn't one. The same could be said of SE Linux or MacOS, too, for that matter.
Instead of reloading Windows after you format, install a Linux distribution. Problem solved. Or, if you insist on reinstalling Windows, get AppGuard, which will block the stuff your anti-virus misses. (Full disclosure: I work for the company that produces it, but it's kept my daughter's computer virus-free for six months now.)
Also, as others have suggested, a Mac will reduce your workload, but I consider Apple to be even more of a dictatorship than Microsoft.
This is something that should really tick off writers. An author puts a lot of work into choosing the right words for what he wants to say and wrestles with his editors over word choices until the work is finally in print (or published, by whatever means). Now Amazon is going to take a damned computer and change the words willy-nilly? Please!
Of course, this may someday lead to an ironic situation in which someone purchases a digital copy of a book or something, and one of the most oft-quoted sentences in the work has been changed, so that the reader is cheated of finally reading the sentence in context. I can see it now, the famed "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" from MacBeth, changed to "Out, wretched stain! out, I say!" Or, perhaps worse, the quote with the changed word(s) becomes more widely known.
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"Doubleclick it until it opens up a Finder window, and then drag the icon into the Application folder on the left hand side of the Finder window".
Um, yeah. In December, my parents asked me to set up file sharing between Dad's Mac and Mom's PC, and the documentation on the Mac talked about a Finder window and some other stuff. I had to do a web search to learn how to decipher the MacSpeak. Intuitive, it's not. I sure was glad to go home to my Linux laptop.
Actually, most of the Mozart that I've ever heard has a fairly small dynamic range. He seemed to rely on weaving together patterns of notes. You'll generally see more of that with Beethoven and some of the others.
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Landis grew up a Mennonite, sometimes refered to German Baptists, often mistaken as Amish.
The Amish and the Mennonites are closely linked and both groups are descended from German Baptists. The practices of the Amish are distributed over a significant range; there are even some who will use a stationary gasoline or diesel engine to power equipment in the barn. They carefully consider the costs and benefits of innovation and how it would affect their way of life.
Also, the young people can be rebellious just like young people in the population at large. The rebellion might take the form of a battery-powered radio, or a car. The community tolerates this to a point. Eventually, the young person has to decide whether to commit to the Amish way or not, and the real trouble only comes if he apostasizes (i.e., says he will follow the Amish way and changes his mind).
I learned this from a book by a college professor who was raised in the Amish faith and chose to become a Mennonite when he came of age.
A company wants to end all its part numbers in a veiled reference to New Testiment verses? What's the big deal.
None to me, since I'm Jewish. But if I were a Christian, I'd be plenty upset. The whole thrust of the New Testament is about the Prince of Peace, and someone's associating it with weapons? It wasn't the church vs. state issue some made it out to be, it was a question of profaning the holy.
I'm not sure a cuddle buddy would be illegal most places here in the U.S. It would not, however, pass muster with my wife.
At least the manufacturer isn't inscribing "JN3:16" or "MAT6:27-31".
I agree. What matters is whether he/she has a low /. UID.
Watch a black and white and within a couple minutes you'll forget you're watching black and white.
Wait, do you mean to tell me that the Three Stooges aren't in color?
The original article is here.
The teachers I have learned the most from have always been the ones with a reputation for being difficult -- with the exception of the freshman sociology prof who couldn't stand the fact that his course was regarded as an easy A and set out to make it difficult. And even from him, I learned a thing or two to avoid doing if I did not wish to be considered an ass.
Ah. I work for a shop with 25-30 people, so our independent contractors really are independent.
I haven't received a bonus in about two years. It was a $1000 check. And the only reason I got that little gift is that I MADE money for my company. One of the perks of being a contractor for a small company. Of course, that contract ended, so I went to work for a larger IT company, and haven't received a bonus since. Working directly for a company is nice, but contracting pays better.
I thought that if you're a contractor, you're the company you work for. So if there are no bonuses, shouldn't you complain to your management?
Nasty instant Coffee?
That's nothing. Where I work, we have go outside, and chew the leaves and beans off coffee bushes ourselves.
Lucky sod! Your coffee's fresher than everyone's!
From Conservapedia's Bible Project:
Liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in modern Bible translations. There are three sources of errors in conveying biblical meaning are, in increasing amount:
That's almost funny. The liberal bias in the King James version has a lot to do with why I am a liberal.
but as Bush was a born again Christian he accepted Blair.
Wait a minute! I thought Bush accepted Christ. Do you mean to tell me he's a Blairian, not a Christian?
Now I am trying to increase my bad karma :P
Congratulations. As of this moment, your comment is at -1, Flamebait.
It sounds as though you feel the same way about your home state as I do mine: It's a great place to be from.
Was the missile launch Russia's celebration of the Nobel Awards going on this week?
Will it spontaneously combust the way some lithium batteries do? If not, then it's hardly a replacement!
It looks to me like Appligent is going to gain another customer for Redax. If you're gonna black it out, do it right.
It looks to me like the hosting person saved 400KB, or about one-fifth the size. That's worth it, IMHO.
Doesn't this whole story belong under http://idle.slashdot.org? Unless such a back door is found, we have no proof that it is there, and no matter how many denials we get from Microsoft and NSA that there is no back door, there is no guarantee there isn't one. The same could be said of SE Linux or MacOS, too, for that matter.
Instead of reloading Windows after you format, install a Linux distribution. Problem solved. Or, if you insist on reinstalling Windows, get AppGuard, which will block the stuff your anti-virus misses. (Full disclosure: I work for the company that produces it, but it's kept my daughter's computer virus-free for six months now.)
Also, as others have suggested, a Mac will reduce your workload, but I consider Apple to be even more of a dictatorship than Microsoft.
This is something that should really tick off writers. An author puts a lot of work into choosing the right words for what he wants to say and wrestles with his editors over word choices until the work is finally in print (or published, by whatever means). Now Amazon is going to take a damned computer and change the words willy-nilly? Please!
Of course, this may someday lead to an ironic situation in which someone purchases a digital copy of a book or something, and one of the most oft-quoted sentences in the work has been changed, so that the reader is cheated of finally reading the sentence in context. I can see it now, the famed "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" from MacBeth, changed to "Out, wretched stain! out, I say!" Or, perhaps worse, the quote with the changed word(s) becomes more widely known.
. . . I think it's reasonable to think that most businesses making such devices don't want to shit where they eat by doing a known bad thing.
:s/think/hope/
But that's no help for those of us who are paranoid.