If by "types of fiction", you mean Harry Potter or Hunger Games (books written for kids but for some bizarre reason seem to resonate with some adults), I'd have to take her side. If you mean Heinlein and Herbert, I'm with you.
Interesting... you like Heinlein and Herbert but not Hunger Games? I can only assume this means you did not read it, the first of the Hunger Games trilogy is easily on par with the average Heinlein juvenile novel.
Heinlein did his share of juveniles in the 50's and 60's: Space Cadet, Podkayne of Mars, Between Planets, Have Spacesuit Will Travel, The Star Beast and The Rolling Stones just to name a few. Definitely aimed at a young audience but quite worth reading.
I never got around to trying Harry Potter, probably because it always felt like a child friendly epic version of The Wall Around the World a short story by Theodore Cogswell in 1953.
His obsession affects his magical schoolwork. His teacher Mr. Wickens informs his uncle and aunt, with whom he lives, but no amount of discipline can diminish the boy's interest. Mr. Wickens himself warns Porgie not to follow in the footsteps of his father, taken by the Black Man for writing a paper on forbidden technology. He even briefly shows Porgie his father's work; Porgie glimpses a sketch of an airplane and is inspired to secretly build a crude glider.
"No, no. You would far prefer Windows. That’s like a nice normal bottle-blonde girlfriend who has a proper office job and dresses cleanly from Primark and has a sweet smile and lives in a proper bedsit and knows everyone and how to act normally and is accepted in society. She gets headaches a lot and fits of rage where she smashes everything and there’s an odd smell of decaying human flesh coming from the drains and the toilet backs up every now and then filling the entire block with sewage and bits of bodies, but this is entirely normal and nothing to worry about. "
Well that's the crazy part, Joe Sixpack and Julie Ginantonix are quite happy with their completely broken Windows. I have learned not to challenge their limited ability to acquire new skills.
Forget Linux, my eldest brother threw a Windows hissy fit when he learned I'd migrated to a macbook. (Until he learned that in the decade he wasn't paying attention it had magically become Unix.)
Pretty much the same thing Amazon did. You can now use the MP3 App or Kindle app on iOS, but there's no "buy additional content" within the app. You need to buy on a pc / android etc...
You can buy Amazon ebooks through Safari on iPad then load them into the Kindle app.
Of the two strategies, the second seems better backed by numbers. The sharp dip in the crime rate from the later 1990s through the 2000s is thought to be due to much longer sentences being handed down to violent criminals starting in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Incarceration costs are up, but public harm is down. Spend money, get benefit.
I read it was due to abortion becoming much more acceptable, which led to fewer kids being born into a bad family situation that would eventually lead to criminal behaviour.
Part of the morning ritual for this facility is to have staff inspect the ground surrounding the facility for any abnormality including bird strikes. In five years of operations they have never detected a single bird strike nor found any dead birds near the windmill. Even my house had had more bird strikes than that.
Ah, Seneca said it. Must be correct. How did he determine who the wise were, those who agreed with him?
This might not be the original point, but if this was observed 2000 years ago by a well known Roman writer you should not be surprised when modern people make the same observation and quote him.
This does not mean Seneca was right by definition, it just provides another datapoint to show that this is not exactly a new trend.
(Athiests, we're everywhere, and like you're parents, we're always right!)
and its creator also cured all forms of cancer, went to Mars and back on a rocket he built from only what was in his basement, and beat Kim Jong-il in golf.
Only because of the Unicorns on the 11th green that ate Kim's ball.
The Republican "Revolution" wasn't. As soon as they got elected, they went on spending and expanding government just as bad as the Democrats. There really isn't a dime's worth of difference between them. Romney would have been just as bad as Obama, only in a few different ways.
I suspect that they would have managed to make Bush/Cheney look like intellectual humanitarians.
Yes, that is an unfortunate effect of dealing with stupid people all day, you end up feeling really smart when you are really just a step above those you help.
You can call them stupid all you like, I call them customers and they pay the bills nicely.
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If by "types of fiction", you mean Harry Potter or Hunger Games (books written for kids but for some bizarre reason seem to resonate with some adults), I'd have to take her side. If you mean Heinlein and Herbert, I'm with you.
Interesting... you like Heinlein and Herbert but not Hunger Games? I can only assume this means you did not read it, the first of the Hunger Games trilogy is easily on par with the average Heinlein juvenile novel.
Heinlein did his share of juveniles in the 50's and 60's: Space Cadet, Podkayne of Mars, Between Planets, Have Spacesuit Will Travel, The Star Beast and The Rolling Stones just to name a few. Definitely aimed at a young audience but quite worth reading.
I never got around to trying Harry Potter, probably because it always felt like a child friendly epic version of The Wall Around the World a short story by Theodore Cogswell in 1953.
Link: http://newstechnica.com/2008/11/09/ask-jack/ (probably NSFW)
Well that's the crazy part, Joe Sixpack and Julie Ginantonix are quite happy with their completely broken Windows. I have learned not to challenge their limited ability to acquire new skills.
Forget Linux, my eldest brother threw a Windows hissy fit when he learned I'd migrated to a macbook. (Until he learned that in the decade he wasn't paying attention it had magically become Unix.)
Mom? is that you?
Yup, your mom's karma on Slashdot is high enough to get a karma-bonus when posting...
I am not sure why users give you funny looks with Linux.
Sort of the same reason for getting funny looks when you show up at a wedding in shorts and a Bud Lite T-shirt.
The article is sensationalistic click bait.
On the internet? I'm shocked, SHOCKED!
Just saying.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I don't judge, I'm just optimizing for time.
Pretty much the same thing Amazon did. You can now use the MP3 App or Kindle app on iOS, but there's no "buy additional content" within the app. You need to buy on a pc / android etc...
You can buy Amazon ebooks through Safari on iPad then load them into the Kindle app.
Check the gender of the people doing the sending first.
That's a waste of effort, you just know they'll all be male.
Why all this revulsion at eating an insect? There are lots of exotic yet disgusting food out there in this world.
And how are Cicadas that much different from edible locusts, which are eaten in the Middle East, Mexico and elsewhere?
I wondered about this for a long time. Given how common insects are as a food in many parts of the world, why is it so taboo in Europe?
And then I learned they're not kosher.
That's right...
Apparently, he also made a lousy boss...
Just imagine how successful he could have been with better people skills!
Of the two strategies, the second seems better backed by numbers. The sharp dip in the crime rate from the later 1990s through the 2000s is thought to be due to much longer sentences being handed down to violent criminals starting in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Incarceration costs are up, but public harm is down. Spend money, get benefit.
I read it was due to abortion becoming much more acceptable, which led to fewer kids being born into a bad family situation that would eventually lead to criminal behaviour.
Voluntary eugenics?
LMDE. Linux Mint Debian Edition.
All of the pretty Mint stuff (cinnamon / MATE) but is compatible with debian testing.
My nerdy bits are all a flutter. I shall have to try this.
It might amuse you to discover that the blogger in question is a Canadian/British dual citizen.
Don't go looking for trouble. If you couldn't handle Ubuntu, Arch will drive you insane.
1000 times this.
Or Mint, it's a litte more windowsy than Ubuntu but with all the rest of the ubuntuy goodness.
This.
In 2004 I visited the Ecotricity site in Swaffham, Norfolk, UK at that time this windmill had been in operation for five years.
Part of the morning ritual for this facility is to have staff inspect the ground surrounding the facility for any abnormality including bird strikes. In five years of operations they have never detected a single bird strike nor found any dead birds near the windmill. Even my house had had more bird strikes than that.
Presumably, on everything except the proper spelling of "your parents".
Hint: "we're" = "we are". "You're" = "you are".
You are correct sir, you get one grammer Nazi point.
Dyslexia, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. (Seriously, spelling has been my bane for 35 years, I'm surprised I make as few mistakes as I do.)
This is hardly a datapoint. It's an opinion, and his is no more (or less) valid than anyone elses.
Yes, and like everyone else, I always express my opinion as if it were fact. :)
Ah, Seneca said it. Must be correct. How did he determine who the wise were, those who agreed with him?
This might not be the original point, but if this was observed 2000 years ago by a well known Roman writer you should not be surprised when modern people make the same observation and quote him.
This does not mean Seneca was right by definition, it just provides another datapoint to show that this is not exactly a new trend.
(Athiests, we're everywhere, and like you're parents, we're always right!)
And does anyone on staff at Slashdot know the difference?
and its creator also cured all forms of cancer, went to Mars and back on a rocket he built from only what was in his basement, and beat Kim Jong-il in golf.
Only because of the Unicorns on the 11th green that ate Kim's ball.
The Republican "Revolution" wasn't. As soon as they got elected, they went on spending and expanding government just as bad as the Democrats. There really isn't a dime's worth of difference between them. Romney would have been just as bad as Obama, only in a few different ways.
I suspect that they would have managed to make Bush/Cheney look like intellectual humanitarians.
Interesting, the fund was created by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which was passed by the 104th United States Congress.
January 3, 1995: Republicans gained control of both houses for the first time since the 1950s.
Fucking communists. :)
... or America for that matter.
However, for discovering the Bahamas he's one of my heros.
Yes, that is an unfortunate effect of dealing with stupid people all day, you end up feeling really smart when you are really just a step above those you help.
You can call them stupid all you like, I call them customers and they pay the bills nicely.