The downside would be having to hit a button every 108 minutes after sexual exhaustion sets in.
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You've convinced me. I think I'll be checking out Yahoo's service, and, if there's a method of letting me put songs on my iPod, I'll be subscribing. Thanks for popping a little rationality and pragmatism into Slashdot.
I'm a high school student going into my Senior year. My opinion is that teachers (or those reponsible for hiring them) are the problem with U.S. public education. What public education needs are teachers who aren't lazy. In my lifetime, I've only had 5 teachers that I can call "good" with a clear conscience. (Meaning: they challenged their students and didn't cripple the entire class for students that refused to work/think/learn.) Interestingly, all of those were English or History teachers.
Most of my teachers have just been lazy. Sheerly and utterly lazy. Some have been unqualified. One such teacher was a football coach who taught Spanish I. He did not actually speak Spanish. Through the entire course, he gave out 3 assignments, none of which were graded. At the end of the course, our grade reports showed well over 30 made-up assignments with random grades attached. Some days, the man wouldn't even talk to us. He would get on his cell phone and walk outside while we chatted amongst ourselves inside. These are the sorts of people who keep their jobs in public high schools. It's disgusting and disgraceful.
I'll quit typing before this becomes an angry, incoherent tirade...
They really should have talked more about the super-obfuscated new Explorer UI design that'll ugg up your desktop and piss off system administrators worldwide. (It has some of the scariest screenshots I've ever seen. But that's okay, because it can make the badly-drawn art transparently display at 70 frames-per-second!)
Are you talking about the lack of desktop-level (GNOME and KDE) security features on Linux? Akin to Windows' Security Center or a Norton/McAfee equivilant?
I just spent 2 minutes staring at this post before I realized del.icio.us was just like the English word "delicious." And that domain name has been freaking me out for so long...
Think of the children, please. Maybe some of you guys don't have to worry because you spend 4 hours-a-day actually SEARCHING for porn on the web, but please, a 5 or 6 year old girl, or even a boy?
I don't know about everyone else, but I think this only means good things for the 5 and 6-year-olds. It's the 13 and 14-year-olds with a right to know that I'm worried about. Educational sites about sex will be filtered. You can count on it.
You might not need it, at all. But it's been very handy for my parents and grandparents, who haven't quite figured out folders and files. They can easily get to any Word document they want simply by remembering a key name, etc.
They love it. Of course, you and me have different, lesser, uses for it. I use Beagle (not Google Desktop Search, but similar) to find stuff. If I forget to write down, say... Aaron's phone number, I can punch in "Aaron phone" and it'll find either the Gaim log of whoever told it to me or the email of whoever emailed it to me.
Whether the memory cost is worth it to you... that's your choice.
I've wondered, too. I like tabbed browsing, but I'm not sure why. If you're interested... my theory, at the moment, is that I like it because I can work with all the pages I'm browsing at the same time. I'm usually only reading one page at a time, but I often want to switch between pages, minimize the window, or move the window. It's a heck of a lot easier to do that with tabs in one window (only one click) than to have 6 windows opened and 5 minimized. (Several clicks and drags.)
That's what I'm assuming. I doubt it's difficult when you have access to the code for window management and such, especially when you can use OpenGL to transform them.
My guess is that none of these Windows apps use a reasonably efficient method of refreshing their window captures. Instead of grabbing them while a window is up, they seem to restore a window, take a screenshot, then minimize again.
If you want to do something like this, I really recommend pinging windows for their status or doing some API hooking. I'm pretty sure a nice imitation, at the least, is possible. If you ever do this, send me an message. I may just be interested in contributing. Or at least becoming a loyal user.
I've tried TopDesk and WinPlosion (along with several others). NONE of them are fast enough to be in any way useful. It takes several seconds for any to respond, generally... and many are crashy.
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The downside would be having to hit a button every 108 minutes after sexual exhaustion sets in.
You've convinced me. I think I'll be checking out Yahoo's service, and, if there's a method of letting me put songs on my iPod, I'll be subscribing. Thanks for popping a little rationality and pragmatism into Slashdot.
That is the most blatant Open Source advertisement I've ever... oh, wait. This is Slashdot.
*ducks*
180 solutions to cut back on spyware? Isn't that a little excessive?
...or is the only way to make the game "infinitely moddable" to open the game's source?
Either way, it sounds awesome.
I'm a high school student going into my Senior year. My opinion is that teachers (or those reponsible for hiring them) are the problem with U.S. public education. What public education needs are teachers who aren't lazy. In my lifetime, I've only had 5 teachers that I can call "good" with a clear conscience. (Meaning: they challenged their students and didn't cripple the entire class for students that refused to work/think/learn.) Interestingly, all of those were English or History teachers.
Most of my teachers have just been lazy. Sheerly and utterly lazy. Some have been unqualified. One such teacher was a football coach who taught Spanish I. He did not actually speak Spanish. Through the entire course, he gave out 3 assignments, none of which were graded. At the end of the course, our grade reports showed well over 30 made-up assignments with random grades attached. Some days, the man wouldn't even talk to us. He would get on his cell phone and walk outside while we chatted amongst ourselves inside. These are the sorts of people who keep their jobs in public high schools. It's disgusting and disgraceful.
I'll quit typing before this becomes an angry, incoherent tirade...
They really should have talked more about the super-obfuscated new Explorer UI design that'll ugg up your desktop and piss off system administrators worldwide. (It has some of the scariest screenshots I've ever seen. But that's okay, because it can make the badly-drawn art transparently display at 70 frames-per-second!)
And just as tasty.
Are you talking about the lack of desktop-level (GNOME and KDE) security features on Linux? Akin to Windows' Security Center or a Norton/McAfee equivilant?
Lawsuits are omni-platform.
I just spent 2 minutes staring at this post before I realized del.icio.us was just like the English word "delicious." And that domain name has been freaking me out for so long...
Think of the children, please. Maybe some of you guys don't have to worry because you spend 4 hours-a-day actually SEARCHING for porn on the web, but please, a 5 or 6 year old girl, or even a boy?
I don't know about everyone else, but I think this only means good things for the 5 and 6-year-olds. It's the 13 and 14-year-olds with a right to know that I'm worried about. Educational sites about sex will be filtered. You can count on it.
Become?
You might not need it, at all. But it's been very handy for my parents and grandparents, who haven't quite figured out folders and files. They can easily get to any Word document they want simply by remembering a key name, etc. They love it. Of course, you and me have different, lesser, uses for it. I use Beagle (not Google Desktop Search, but similar) to find stuff. If I forget to write down, say... Aaron's phone number, I can punch in "Aaron phone" and it'll find either the Gaim log of whoever told it to me or the email of whoever emailed it to me. Whether the memory cost is worth it to you... that's your choice.
I've wondered, too. I like tabbed browsing, but I'm not sure why. If you're interested... my theory, at the moment, is that I like it because I can work with all the pages I'm browsing at the same time. I'm usually only reading one page at a time, but I often want to switch between pages, minimize the window, or move the window. It's a heck of a lot easier to do that with tabs in one window (only one click) than to have 6 windows opened and 5 minimized. (Several clicks and drags.)
That's an overreaction. You seem to have confused observation with censorship.
Because it's impractical. Besides, there are many OSS/FS developers who are paid for their work (Novell employees, for instance).
Insightful. In that respect, I suppose the Linux zealots are the opposite of the Mac zealots.
What's a bikini team? And how do I meet one?
That's what I'm assuming. I doubt it's difficult when you have access to the code for window management and such, especially when you can use OpenGL to transform them. My guess is that none of these Windows apps use a reasonably efficient method of refreshing their window captures. Instead of grabbing them while a window is up, they seem to restore a window, take a screenshot, then minimize again. If you want to do something like this, I really recommend pinging windows for their status or doing some API hooking. I'm pretty sure a nice imitation, at the least, is possible. If you ever do this, send me an message. I may just be interested in contributing. Or at least becoming a loyal user.
I've tried TopDesk and WinPlosion (along with several others). NONE of them are fast enough to be in any way useful. It takes several seconds for any to respond, generally... and many are crashy.
...and I imagine kids would think it 'cool.'
Perhaps the mention of Natalie Portman makes it "news for nerds?"
I agree. But, it's called a "Mac mini" according to apple.com. Common mistake, it seems.
Let's scroll back to the decades that included segregation.