I have since enabled tap-click on my Fedora Core 2 installation and pointed a friend to how he can enable tap-click on his MacOS X laptop.
Ironically, I got extremely pissed of with each successive version of windoze until I learned how to disable this irritating bit of second-guessing. I'll click the button when I want to click, thanks.
Linux wouldn't be where it is if the developers really listened to Windows users.
And neither would Windows. Freakin' whole word select. If I wanted to select the whole word, I'd put the cursor at one end and click-n-drag to the other end, thanks all the same.
But never, ever make the mistake of assuming that it only applies to the government. It is the goal of any organization, government, private, non-profit, public, etc. Business is included in that. They can waste money every bit as well as government (they may have less of it).
There's a big difference though. The funding for the business is optional (the customer can go to their rival). For a government it isn't.
Cooking is fun! Trying to get your favourite dish just right should appeal to any geek who has the same drive for perfection when building computers or coding.
Quite. It's:
Science - the chemical changes caused by cooking, heat transfer, solubility, colloids...
Project management - timings, using the resources in the correct order, not needing the same thing twice at the same time...
Art - blending & balancing flavours & textures, choosing courses that go together...
All rolled into one. When I'm on the bench, it's what keeps me relatively sane.
Unfortunately, it does to poity haired bosses for whom it is the only way to 'measure productivity', which they have to do so they can show graphs and stuff to their bosses in long pointless meetings. After all, judging the true quality of your work would require them (pardon the management jargon) to have a fucking clue. I had one boss who used to time me when I went for a piss; another complained because "I didn't seem to be hitting the keys as fast as so-and-so". Wankers.
I'd be much more inclined to argue the point that they aren't capable of making a proper consent [...] Children are certainly much easier to manipulate than adults, something unscrupulous people would exploit to their advantage.
OTOH, some adults don't exactly make smart decisions either.
personally I thought the A-10 was more ugly... but then again Im partial to that one over the tin cans they fly now.
It's my favourite! It can take out any tank in the world - if necessary, by head-butting.
A damn good example of design too - form following function, and never mind the aesthetics. Built from the ground up (sorry) for CAS, rather than being an outdated or overweight fighter as had often been the case in that role.
Well said. On top of which, if the card has to be shown to get social security benefits and NHS treatment (and if it's not, then how is it going to combat benefit fraud & heath tourism as they claim?), the government will be forced by human rights legislation to issue one to anyone who drops of the back of a lorry at Dover anyway, no matter that nobody knows anything about his background.
travel throughout continental Europe as an EU citizen and you just don't not need a passport to travel; I've *never* been challenged to produce one, and it's a joy to travel light, far and wide.
Rubbish. You still need an ID card, different name same function. And even when you aren't crossing an international border, it is (certainly in Belgium & France and I think in Germany and Italy) an offence to step out of your door without carrying one.
'It costs the UK 1.3 billion a year, and facilitates organised crime, illegal immigration, benefit fraud, illegal working and terrorism,' Home Office Minister Des Browne said.
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All rolled into one.
When I'm on the bench, it's what keeps me relatively sane.
Spacker. Total and fucking utter karma whoring wanab33 733t spacker. With fucking knobs on.
A damn good example of design too - form following function, and never mind the aesthetics. Built from the ground up (sorry) for CAS, rather than being an outdated or overweight fighter as had often been the case in that role.
But IIRC, IBM are a lot bigger than SCO, and therefore able to pull their heads off and shyte down their scrawny necks.
Well said. On top of which, if the card has to be shown to get social security benefits and NHS treatment (and if it's not, then how is it going to combat benefit fraud & heath tourism as they claim?), the government will be forced by human rights legislation to issue one to anyone who drops of the back of a lorry at Dover anyway, no matter that nobody knows anything about his background.