Hydro or Dustbowl. The balance on Hydro is all over the map, some sections are awesome, some are (in my opinion) the worst (barring 2fort, which is just lame) out of everything on TF2. Dustbowl is a little more consistent. Either way the TF2 maps are worth studying, almost all do a good job of having multiple useful paths to important points in the game, and reward those who put in the time to learn the map well without allowing them complete domination because of it.
Have you actually watched any Dragonball Z fights? I don't think our justice could afford to do that much more useless standing around yelling at each other than they already do.
Those are all fine ideas, but which ones give programmers and computer hardware designers a chance to contribute towards helping out impoverished people? Do you honestly think all, or even most, of the money and effort spent towards the OLPC would readily transfer to other aid projects in other domains?
That was scary. A lot of my language has been picked up from indirect sources - movies, books, comics, etc. Not as much human contact per se, which would usually lead to a horrid pronounciation. One thing to keep in mind is that, with rare exception, the local dialect of English is further from "true English" than what you see in the media. Take something as simple as describing a soft drink. Depending on location the terms soda, pop, soda pop, coke, or soda water could be used. In each case describing it as a "soft drink" will get the point across where a misplaced local name would prompt confusion, so that is what you see in national and international media.
Well, that and learning another language makes you more conscious of the pronunciation and phrasing rules of that language than your average native speaker. Either way kudos on your command of English.
I'm not sure you should be running a production SAP system on a laptop. Now you probably mean the sapgui frontend, but your inability to distinguish the two pretty much renders your opinions worthless. Given two inferences from a statement, one of which makes approximately zero sense while the other seems like a reasonable statement, you go with the near gibberish produced by a completely literal interpretation of his statement. You must be a lot of fun at parties.
You might want to look in to what your local community college requires to be able to teach. The ones I've seen only want a masters degree, which isn't much work if you already have a bachelors. They sometimes will make exceptions on that if you have a ton of directly related experience.
Either way you avoid all of the stupid mess in K-12 public school, and there is something about having to scrape together money for night school while working during the day that makes people really interested in passing their classes the first time and/or learning as much as they possibly can if it is directly related to what they want to do with the degree.
Or, even simpler: Store everything on a USB drive and boot from a liveCD. If you get "the letter" destroy both. If you alternate this behavior between two computers (say a desktop and a laptop) it provides the added confusion of having at least one of the computers you supposedly infringed with being "off" as far as any review of the system logs is concerned.
We had our air conditioning limited and thermostats locked up in the machine room and it was always sweltering. We defeated that system by hanging a drop light under the thermostat.
The theater group at my high school was always getting into trouble for duct taping a hair dryer next to the thermostat as building maintenance could not understand why stage lights and an audience of 200+ might require turning the AC up a bit. Eventually someone from building maintenance got smart and mounted a wooden box with a plexiglass front around it, so they hooked a stage light to that.
Please explain how any of these have actually harmed the community. Simply having caused problems at some time is not enough, if it were Linus, RMS and a whole host of others would have been burned at the stake years ago.
I don't see any correlation AT ALL between age and computer literacy until I start looking at people 75 or older,[...]
I think what I'm seeing here is a lot of generalization based on ignorance. Get a clue.
Yes, exactly. Age has absolutely nothing to do with it, most people are computer illiterate. For some it takes the form of clicking buttons and playing along, others are bewildered even slightly computer-related terms. Make no mistakes though, computers are a world where only 1% of the members know what the hell they are doing.
Wow, you could have read it in the time it took you to post that comment and you wouldn't have seemed like a total asshat and maybe you could have contributed to the dialog instead of wasting fucking disk space, our time and your brain cells. And no, i am too cheap for an enter key. Maybe you can clean my posts up for me since I'm busy doing something not useless.
*Looks at giant wall of text with "Click here for more" link.*
*Looks at minimalistic four line response.
Ok, you either are the world's slowest typer of the world's fastest reader. Either way no one cares about the 10k disk space his response is taking, and if you have enough time to get into pedantic arguments on slashdot you obviously are not doing anything useful. Have any more bits of brilliance for me to dissect while I wait for this raid to finish rebuilding?
I'm from Texas and I take offense to that.... We haven't convicted a household pet of a crime in over 7 years...
Unfortunately, Mr. Snuggles died while awaiting execution. Should still send a message to any other pets who want to run across a busy street "just to see what happens".
After using PHP for 4 years, I can say with some authority that it's complete shit. They're supposed to be fixing some of the most serious design flaws in PHP 6, but I don't think I'll still be using it by then.
They can fix stuff in PHP$X all they want, if they can't get hosting providers and the general population to migrate to it their fixes don't mean a whole lot.
This doesn't make any sense. You don't have to authorize a computer to copy the file. There are no limits on copying the file. Why should you be able to download it more than once?
Why shouldn't you? If only five computers can play the file at any one time why not allow additional downloads? I understand the reasoning behind not doing it, but do most of the people who use Itunes get it? No, Apple is not responsible for their customer's misconceptions, but it probably is not wise to ignore something that could lead to people deciding to never use your project again.
He is a Mac user, these are the same people who sit smugly on forums whole day long proclaiming how Windows is teeming with virii and spyware when all they do is click on that latest included screensaver that comes in their mailbox.
Actually, no. I don't even own a Mac and have yet to cause an serious virus or spyware problems on any computer I own. In fact, I fix them on Windows systems for a living. Nice try though... except for having every single assumption you made be wrong it was a nice flame. Actually, no it wasn't. You're an idiot, please remember that smugly putting someone down only makes you look good when you are right. Otherwise is does the opposite.
And you didn't back up your purchased music files because...?
...he didn't expect to need to? Considering you have to authorize a computer to play files to begin with why should there be any limits on the number of times you can download a file?
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Hydro or Dustbowl. The balance on Hydro is all over the map, some sections are awesome, some are (in my opinion) the worst (barring 2fort, which is just lame) out of everything on TF2. Dustbowl is a little more consistent. Either way the TF2 maps are worth studying, almost all do a good job of having multiple useful paths to important points in the game, and reward those who put in the time to learn the map well without allowing them complete domination because of it.
Well, mine just peaked over 7000, and are still climbing. rrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Have you actually watched any Dragonball Z fights? I don't think our justice could afford to do that much more useless standing around yelling at each other than they already do.
Actually it is a lot like a phone number ... to a worldwide organizations customer call center.
Those are all fine ideas, but which ones give programmers and computer hardware designers a chance to contribute towards helping out impoverished people? Do you honestly think all, or even most, of the money and effort spent towards the OLPC would readily transfer to other aid projects in other domains?
Well, that and learning another language makes you more conscious of the pronunciation and phrasing rules of that language than your average native speaker. Either way kudos on your command of English.
You might want to look in to what your local community college requires to be able to teach. The ones I've seen only want a masters degree, which isn't much work if you already have a bachelors. They sometimes will make exceptions on that if you have a ton of directly related experience. Either way you avoid all of the stupid mess in K-12 public school, and there is something about having to scrape together money for night school while working during the day that makes people really interested in passing their classes the first time and/or learning as much as they possibly can if it is directly related to what they want to do with the degree.
Or, even simpler: Store everything on a USB drive and boot from a liveCD. If you get "the letter" destroy both. If you alternate this behavior between two computers (say a desktop and a laptop) it provides the added confusion of having at least one of the computers you supposedly infringed with being "off" as far as any review of the system logs is concerned.
I can't think of a way in which you couldn't.
Please explain how any of these have actually harmed the community. Simply having caused problems at some time is not enough, if it were Linus, RMS and a whole host of others would have been burned at the stake years ago.
*Looks at minimalistic four line response.
Ok, you either are the world's slowest typer of the world's fastest reader. Either way no one cares about the 10k disk space his response is taking, and if you have enough time to get into pedantic arguments on slashdot you obviously are not doing anything useful. Have any more bits of brilliance for me to dissect while I wait for this raid to finish rebuilding?
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." - Bjarne Stroustrup
I'm guessing this discussion will not be conducted until we approach the time when someone needs to refer to it.