You're absolutely right: the average user wants one touch simplicity.
How many _average_ users do you know that routinely flash their BIOS
Even if they did want to be able to, using a jumper system as already described and leaving the jumper in the "read/write" setting would solve the problem of simplicity for the average user and of features/security for us Slashdot crowd.
Aside from the cool factor of saying they sampled a billion pages??
Are you kidding me?? Statistics aside, I think its friggen awesome that some guy actually found the time to sample one billion web pages. (Or even had a script do it for him...he still had to assimilate the data.) Think of the tons of time it must have taken, as compared to what a normal sample (95% confidence, p equal to/less than.05, etc.) would have.
But seriously, if the summary wouldn't have said the number billion, I probably wouldn't have cared about it.;)
Yes, environment is critical to geniuses, in the sense that without the correct environmental factors (whatever they may be for the individual) the genius will not blossom into something great -- his/her full potential, as it were. That being said, there are many people whom are considered geniuses (based on IQ score or other objective method) who will never quite find that perfect set of environmental factors, and thus will never realize their full potential -- or any of their potential at all.
Also, on a kind of off-topic side note: from where I stand, it seems that the USA is spending MUCH more money, both publicly and privately, on finding the next Michal Jordan/Tiger Woods/et al. than finding the next Einstein/Da Vinci/et al.
By saying this,I'm probably going to get flamed...
(que "I'm going to get flamed, meaning give me good karma posts")
Anyways, everyone who is posting about the variable name has obvuiously not only compiled from the source, but actually read the source code, Of Free, Open Source, Software. As I have seen extolled here again and again, that means that the community helps to fix the code. So, for everyone complaining (or whatever it is you're doing) about stupid variable names -- why don't you edit the source to use logical variable names? Use it yourself, send to friends, try to get it adopted by KDE (or whatever other organization, depending on the app). I know that its an easy fix to make. And just think, you can tell all your friends you helped write KDE!;)
Do you have any fucking idea what happens to kids who others let "languish behind the gill at a burger joint"? Especially the ones origionally from a low income family? CRIME. Why bother working hard at learning things that they don't see as nesecary, especially when crime is paying WELL over what an educated person would make, without having to do much real work. Just for instance: I live in Madison, WI. I knew __multiple__ kids in high school who had already turned to selling drugs for a living. Some of those guys were making more than $1000/week in profit. Thats $52,000 a year, AFTER taxes (probably around $75,000 a year before.) Tell me one job where you can make this kind of money without spending years on school (they start making the money at 18, while you spend at least $100,000 on school, plus missing four years of income) dont have set hours, dont have a boss, etc...
Basically, when you let the lowest element through the cracks, especially if you are one of his last hopes as a safety net, they are going to do whatever they can to survive -- that's usually selling drugs, committing robberies, etc.
If you can find a car loan...or almost ANY loan for prime + 0, or prime + 1, take it. Thats an amazing rate, especially if you have bad credit. Hell, when I worked at a mortgage company, we wouldn't give you prime plus one unless your beacon score was well above 700...I know car loans are even worse (houses make equity/money as they age, cars....don't.)
I find it absolutely impossible to believe that people are incapable of writing a single sentance without making a mistake.
Just to play devil's advocate, there is even a slight mistake in your single sentance condemning others' sentances containing mistakes. Saying something is "absolutely impossible" is extraneous -- something is either possible or not, no modifiers are needed to describe exactly _how_ impossible something is. (Yes, my English prof. just ripped me a new one for doing the same thing in a paper.) So, as you can see, it is easy to make simple mistakes in such a field, where a mistake can range from an incorrect algorithym, to simply using coloquial English.
And yes, I'm sure there is some way I f'd this rant up.
I can one up you on that. I was at work and had to move an employee's car, but I couldn't find the set of keys he normally uses. As a last ditch effort, I found a key that looked similar to his and moved his 1990 Honda Accord. I later found out that the key was to an old Toyota pickup truck. Oops...
I remember that...as sad as it is to say, AOL and all those programs created for AOL were how I got into computers, and learned some (visual) basic programming. It was to the point where I could churn out an automated phishing program within an hour, and by no means was/am I a good programmer.
Being a bank teller for about 4 years, I have seen my share of forged checks/bills. The teller told her not to handle the check too much because thats what s/he was told, by the Secret Service/bank security folks. Whenever we get a counterfeit bill (even a $1) we have mounds of paperwork to fill out, and then we send everything directly to the SS. With forged checks, it usually goes first to bank security, and they often send it on to the SS. Either way, fingerprints are taken from the bills and checks, so not handling them is a good idea, not because they will suspect you (they won't) but because it could make catching the real theif easier.
Very correct. The 6000 figure comes from people analyzing scriptures, etc, and making good educated guesses. There should be a Wiki link in the parent.
Surprisingly enough, in the early 1700's (if i remember correctly) there was a very large argument about the age of the earth. All of the relegious zealots claimed it was created around 6000 years ago, while the scientists claimed the earth was billions of years old. Neither side believed the other, and there was much fighting. This was all broken by a man named Phillip Henry Goss, who created what is called "The Omphalos Argument" -- omphalos being greek for knot, or so I'm told. Anyway, the gist of this argument is that the earth is in fact only 6000 years old, but it was created with the appearance of being billions of years old, including light from the stars en-rout, radiocarbons having decayed, fake fossils, etc. (Think Bladerunner where the clones have memories that never really happened.) Moral of the story, there really is no _definitive_ way to prove this statement wrong.
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You're absolutely right: the average user wants one touch simplicity.
How many _average_ users do you know that routinely flash their BIOS
Even if they did want to be able to, using a jumper system as already described and leaving the jumper in the "read/write" setting would solve the problem of simplicity for the average user and of features/security for us Slashdot crowd.
Are you kidding me?? Statistics aside, I think its friggen awesome that some guy actually found the time to sample one billion web pages. (Or even had a script do it for him...he still had to assimilate the data.) Think of the tons of time it must have taken, as compared to what a normal sample (95% confidence, p equal to/less than .05, etc.) would have.
But seriously, if the summary wouldn't have said the number billion, I probably wouldn't have cared about it. ;)
Yes, environment is critical to geniuses, in the sense that without the correct environmental factors (whatever they may be for the individual) the genius will not blossom into something great -- his/her full potential, as it were. That being said, there are many people whom are considered geniuses (based on IQ score or other objective method) who will never quite find that perfect set of environmental factors, and thus will never realize their full potential -- or any of their potential at all.
Also, on a kind of off-topic side note: from where I stand, it seems that the USA is spending MUCH more money, both publicly and privately, on finding the next Michal Jordan/Tiger Woods/et al. than finding the next Einstein/Da Vinci/et al.
By saying this,I'm probably going to get flamed... ;)
(que "I'm going to get flamed, meaning give me good karma posts")
Anyways, everyone who is posting about the variable name has obvuiously not only compiled from the source, but actually read the source code, Of Free, Open Source, Software. As I have seen extolled here again and again, that means that the community helps to fix the code. So, for everyone complaining (or whatever it is you're doing) about stupid variable names -- why don't you edit the source to use logical variable names? Use it yourself, send to friends, try to get it adopted by KDE (or whatever other organization, depending on the app). I know that its an easy fix to make. And just think, you can tell all your friends you helped write KDE!
Basically, when you let the lowest element through the cracks, especially if you are one of his last hopes as a safety net, they are going to do whatever they can to survive -- that's usually selling drugs, committing robberies, etc.
If you can find a car loan...or almost ANY loan for prime + 0, or prime + 1, take it. Thats an amazing rate, especially if you have bad credit. Hell, when I worked at a mortgage company, we wouldn't give you prime plus one unless your beacon score was well above 700...I know car loans are even worse (houses make equity/money as they age, cars....don't.)
Just to play devil's advocate, there is even a slight mistake in your single sentance condemning others' sentances containing mistakes. Saying something is "absolutely impossible" is extraneous -- something is either possible or not, no modifiers are needed to describe exactly _how_ impossible something is. (Yes, my English prof. just ripped me a new one for doing the same thing in a paper.) So, as you can see, it is easy to make simple mistakes in such a field, where a mistake can range from an incorrect algorithym, to simply using coloquial English.
And yes, I'm sure there is some way I f'd this rant up.
I can one up you on that. I was at work and had to move an employee's car, but I couldn't find the set of keys he normally uses. As a last ditch effort, I found a key that looked similar to his and moved his 1990 Honda Accord. I later found out that the key was to an old Toyota pickup truck. Oops...
I remember that...as sad as it is to say, AOL and all those programs created for AOL were how I got into computers, and learned some (visual) basic programming. It was to the point where I could churn out an automated phishing program within an hour, and by no means was/am I a good programmer.
Being a bank teller for about 4 years, I have seen my share of forged checks/bills. The teller told her not to handle the check too much because thats what s/he was told, by the Secret Service/bank security folks. Whenever we get a counterfeit bill (even a $1) we have mounds of paperwork to fill out, and then we send everything directly to the SS. With forged checks, it usually goes first to bank security, and they often send it on to the SS. Either way, fingerprints are taken from the bills and checks, so not handling them is a good idea, not because they will suspect you (they won't) but because it could make catching the real theif easier.
Very correct. The 6000 figure comes from people analyzing scriptures, etc, and making good educated guesses. There should be a Wiki link in the parent.
Surprisingly enough, in the early 1700's (if i remember correctly) there was a very large argument about the age of the earth. All of the relegious zealots claimed it was created around 6000 years ago, while the scientists claimed the earth was billions of years old. Neither side believed the other, and there was much fighting. This was all broken by a man named Phillip Henry Goss, who created what is called "The Omphalos Argument" -- omphalos being greek for knot, or so I'm told. Anyway, the gist of this argument is that the earth is in fact only 6000 years old, but it was created with the appearance of being billions of years old, including light from the stars en-rout, radiocarbons having decayed, fake fossils, etc. (Think Bladerunner where the clones have memories that never really happened.) Moral of the story, there really is no _definitive_ way to prove this statement wrong.