WASD is rather silly for some. I change all the key mappings in my games (not sure what this keybinding stuff is since I use Iexplore) to ESDF in order to keep my fingers on the home-row, and keep my weak pinkie for the shift and CTRL keys.
Well, who originated the quote about dying for their country?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066206/quotes is from the movie Patton and the first quote says "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
Like the grandparent post, I have always remembered the quote as being from Patton.
This is not a good thing for Linux adoption. Earlier articles today pointed to the increased adoption of Linux among housewives, attributed to sales of eeePCs and other cheap laptops. Now that these ones have XP on them, this can't be a good thing for the trend continuing.
I used to buy Linux... specifically SuSE 5.x an 6.x editions. I didn't have high speed internet at the time, so it was cheaper to buy the CDs and download any new patches/software via dialup. At the time Linux was both a hobby diversion and the only alternative I could see to putting an OS on my computer since Windows 95/98 was rather expensive to buy.
While I think BestBuy should be congratulated for putting Ubuntu in stores, even if they are charging $20 for it (wayyyy cheap compared to Windows Vista or XP). I predict it will not go well for them, however, mostly because high speed internet is so widespread and as usual people will buy it and bring it back when they can't run The Sims or whatever Windows game they run.
The following words are ones I think should be included in the dictionary*:
Bound-and-hagged = staying home on Friday or Saturday night Cob nobbler = loser Dish = desirable guy Fuzz = heavy wool sweaters Harsh realm = bummer Kickers = heavy boots Lamestain = uncool person Plats = platform shoes Swingin' on the flippity-flop = hanging out Wack slacks = old ripped jeans
Then let's hope these rollable displays have a way of also flattening back out properly. I hate it my kids bring home a school project that has been nicely rolled into a tube, and then it takes reverse rolling, weights and humidity to flatten it out. It keeps curling up maddeningly! Wouldn't it be crazy if the display kept curling at the edges?
One of the most annoying bugs in Firefox is the auto-update in Windows. I run exclusively as non-administrator whenever possible, and yet when auto-update runs it rarely completes, instead hanging on the next restart with a "Software Update Failed" that is resolved by a) logging in as administrator to manually apply the update and b) deleting some leftover files/folders.
Now I have auto-update turned off. It is just too much trouble, I just watch the 'Net for the inevitable announcements that a new 'version' is available or a recent bugfix has been released.
I wish my Econ102 (or was it 201?) professor/TA had been so succinct when discussing Oligopolies 20+ years ago, I might have actually enjoyed economics. Thanks for that informative lesson!!!
Guess what, humans are using up precious resources in their inventive quest for more tools/toys/and other environmental "improvements". No sh*t we are going to run out of some of the more unique elements. But as usual, when something gets scarce, it gets expensive and we find other materials as a substitute.
All this hating on MTV. There were lots of musical styles back then, as now, and MTV catered to a few of them all at once. By the time headbangers ball came on, they were already carving up the airtime into demographic segments. They realized that the headbangers were only a small segment of those watching, and those of us who didn't like it, were just as happy to see it segregated to 9 pm+. Actually I hated when the regular videos went off and the metal ones came on at night, I thought it sucked.
Anyway, everyone says the MTV sucked after the first year. I don't find that to be true. There was lots to watch, between some of the unique video styles (e.g. Dire Straits Money For Nothing) and some of the early "shows" (e.g. Real World and that game show w/ Ken somebodyorother). It just wasn't so new anymore, so watching MTV became more selective rather than exclusive viewing... e.g. If a really good video, like A-HA, came on, I'd pay attention and watch, but otherwise I'd pay more attention to my homework/fishtank.
It seems none of the mods has heard "Rocket Man" from Elton John... awesome post in response to the "scientific" analysis of chucking kids out the back of a rocket. Well done.
I was having similar problems last week. Thanks to some helpful posts, suggesting I delete my user profile, I have now reloaded firefox 3 and it is going swimmingly. The only thing I really lost is the stored passwords, which is probably a good thing anyway.
I have been a Windows Firefox user since the late 1.x beta versions. I have never had any problems at all installing alpha or beta versions, they have all been extraordinarily stable.
This is the first release where I have noticed a performance problem. I cannot tell if it is my add-ons that have been hastily updgraded to the 3.x spec, or it is the browser itself. But this is the first time in using Firefox that I have been less than happy with the experience.
I am not a programmer, but a PHB, but tonight I will go home and disable all my addons in the hope that it is one of them driving the instability (e.g. loading my iGoogle page takes 30 seconds or more each time I go to that tab).
I wonder about the ability of a soldier to effectively multi-task. Not only is he in charge of his safety and that of his buddies, but also facing an enemy trying to kill him, and then having to lug around all this electronic stuff occasionally providing manual input into it. I have a tough enough time handling email/cell phone/my job daily I cannot imagine how difficult it is for the modern warrior.
They do not need loyalty cards to track sales of healthy foods. They know *exactly* how much they are selling and how quickly by tracking what is on the shelves. So your point #1 is invalidated. They could give a shit about who buys all healthy foods versus who buys them occasionally. It all ends up in the sales figures, and that stuff that sells well gets more shelf space.
The fact that local grocery stores are limiting the shelf space for healthier food items is that people are preferring prepackaged, sweetened junk that often costs less. Given two alternatives side by side, one the healthy choice and the cheaper/easier/sweeter choice, if the junk food sells better this week/month, then gradually the healthy choice will be phased out. It seems people are preferring the less healthy food, and since it is increasing unavailable we are stuck in a vicious cycle and it will only get worse until folks start demanding the healthier alternatives.
Step #1, talk to your store manager. They have a lot of discretion on what they stock, even in the Stop&Shop/Publix/Kroger super places.
You don't have a "feel" for 70 degrees F for the same way that most American's couldn't tell you if an outside temperature of 35 degrees C is a cool, warm or hot day.
The only arrogance displayed here is intolerance. Someone made a mistake by posting a temperature from a summary on NPR.org, not from the original scientific journal (which uses C), and then as usual the Slashdot crowd goes off on a tangent about what units should be used. A simple correction in the first few posts would have been sufficiently helpful, but noooooo everyone is trying to be too funny or pedantic... knowing exactly what will ensue.
If the landline costs $30 a month, as the parent posts suggests, then a 1 year card w/ bonus codes for $100 giving 1100 minutes (so $8.33 per month), and 90 minutes of talk time per month is not a bad deal *for a child*.
I agree, for talking locally at the rate that most kids do, a landline with unlimited local calling makes a ton of sense over any pay-as-you-go cell plan. However if a person already has a family plan cell phone with unlimited minutes, the $10 extra phone line would make better sense.
I think you would likely have the same experience with other distributions also. I came back to linux after a few years not paying attention, I originally used SuSE 5.1 I think. When I came back to Linux last year I downloaded Ubuntu and had a similar experience as yours. Flawless installation, systems on an old laptop works great etc. etc.
I only wish suspend and hibernate worked with the current issue of Ubuntu. Something broke on my last upgrade.
Get your son his own cell phone. For $10 a month you can get a Tracfone in the U.S., or for that same amount you can often add a phone to a family plan. A heck of a lot cheaper than a landline.
With that said, my family is still on a landline. We do have the Tracfones but they end up being so expensive per minute that the landline plus a $.03 per minute MCI long distance card is the way we talk to family & friends most of the time. I used 23 cell phone minutes last month.
This is common, but from a kid's perspective, most would rather be sitting quietly or reading a book than doing more *work* than everyone else has to do.
My son is in 6th grade and has been at the top of his class since he joined school. He finished the No Child Left Behind mastery tests usually in 20 minutes or less even when the test was supposed to take between 60 and 90 minutes. Even given that, he scored in the 97th - 99th percentile for scores for the last three years (4th, 5th, 6th grade). He gets his smarts from his mother, but gets his motivation, or lack of it, from me.:-)
I say all this because my experience with him and some of his classmates is exactly as described. In fact, we worry that the smart kids are rushing to get done just so they can get to the free time or reading time that much earlier. It almost becomes a race. If it wasn't for the fact that my son's scores are high, we'd have done somethign about it. The thing is, he was asked to be in an academically gifted program and he hated it, not because it wasn't interesting, but because it was more work!
I can see your point, but until we return to a policy of creating "smart kid" classes and "not-so-smart kid" classes, instead of the enforced homogeneous classes we have nowadays, it is unlikely that teachers will be able to cope with students that move at such different speeds. They try all kinds of strategies, like pairing the smart kids together into challenging reading groups, or assigning targeted homework, but 80% of the day is done together with everyone.
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WASD is rather silly for some. I change all the key mappings in my games (not sure what this keybinding stuff is since I use Iexplore) to ESDF in order to keep my fingers on the home-row, and keep my weak pinkie for the shift and CTRL keys.
Well, who originated the quote about dying for their country?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066206/quotes is from the movie Patton and the first quote says "Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
Like the grandparent post, I have always remembered the quote as being from Patton.
This is not a good thing for Linux adoption. Earlier articles today pointed to the increased adoption of Linux among housewives, attributed to sales of eeePCs and other cheap laptops. Now that these ones have XP on them, this can't be a good thing for the trend continuing.
As opposed to pricey technological wishful thinking programs?
I used to buy Linux... specifically SuSE 5.x an 6.x editions. I didn't have high speed internet at the time, so it was cheaper to buy the CDs and download any new patches/software via dialup. At the time Linux was both a hobby diversion and the only alternative I could see to putting an OS on my computer since Windows 95/98 was rather expensive to buy.
While I think BestBuy should be congratulated for putting Ubuntu in stores, even if they are charging $20 for it (wayyyy cheap compared to Windows Vista or XP). I predict it will not go well for them, however, mostly because high speed internet is so widespread and as usual people will buy it and bring it back when they can't run The Sims or whatever Windows game they run.
The following words are ones I think should be included in the dictionary*:
Bound-and-hagged = staying home on Friday or Saturday night
Cob nobbler = loser
Dish = desirable guy
Fuzz = heavy wool sweaters
Harsh realm = bummer
Kickers = heavy boots
Lamestain = uncool person
Plats = platform shoes
Swingin' on the flippity-flop = hanging out
Wack slacks = old ripped jeans
*apologies to the NYTimes and Megan Jasper...
Then let's hope these rollable displays have a way of also flattening back out properly. I hate it my kids bring home a school project that has been nicely rolled into a tube, and then it takes reverse rolling, weights and humidity to flatten it out. It keeps curling up maddeningly! Wouldn't it be crazy if the display kept curling at the edges?
One of the most annoying bugs in Firefox is the auto-update in Windows. I run exclusively as non-administrator whenever possible, and yet when auto-update runs it rarely completes, instead hanging on the next restart with a "Software Update Failed" that is resolved by a) logging in as administrator to manually apply the update and b) deleting some leftover files/folders.
Now I have auto-update turned off. It is just too much trouble, I just watch the 'Net for the inevitable announcements that a new 'version' is available or a recent bugfix has been released.
I wish my Econ102 (or was it 201?) professor/TA had been so succinct when discussing Oligopolies 20+ years ago, I might have actually enjoyed economics. Thanks for that informative lesson!!!
Guess what, humans are using up precious resources in their inventive quest for more tools/toys/and other environmental "improvements". No sh*t we are going to run out of some of the more unique elements. But as usual, when something gets scarce, it gets expensive and we find other materials as a substitute.
All this hating on MTV. There were lots of musical styles back then, as now, and MTV catered to a few of them all at once. By the time headbangers ball came on, they were already carving up the airtime into demographic segments. They realized that the headbangers were only a small segment of those watching, and those of us who didn't like it, were just as happy to see it segregated to 9 pm+. Actually I hated when the regular videos went off and the metal ones came on at night, I thought it sucked.
Anyway, everyone says the MTV sucked after the first year. I don't find that to be true. There was lots to watch, between some of the unique video styles (e.g. Dire Straits Money For Nothing) and some of the early "shows" (e.g. Real World and that game show w/ Ken somebodyorother). It just wasn't so new anymore, so watching MTV became more selective rather than exclusive viewing... e.g. If a really good video, like A-HA, came on, I'd pay attention and watch, but otherwise I'd pay more attention to my homework/fishtank.
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*self-confessed lover of early MTV pop*
I dunno, it seems there are lots of people, like former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who are willing to pay "the price of a car" for 4 minutes of fun.
It seems none of the mods has heard "Rocket Man" from Elton John... awesome post in response to the "scientific" analysis of chucking kids out the back of a rocket. Well done.
I was having similar problems last week. Thanks to some helpful posts, suggesting I delete my user profile, I have now reloaded firefox 3 and it is going swimmingly. The only thing I really lost is the stored passwords, which is probably a good thing anyway.
I have been a Windows Firefox user since the late 1.x beta versions. I have never had any problems at all installing alpha or beta versions, they have all been extraordinarily stable.
This is the first release where I have noticed a performance problem. I cannot tell if it is my add-ons that have been hastily updgraded to the 3.x spec, or it is the browser itself. But this is the first time in using Firefox that I have been less than happy with the experience.
I am not a programmer, but a PHB, but tonight I will go home and disable all my addons in the hope that it is one of them driving the instability (e.g. loading my iGoogle page takes 30 seconds or more each time I go to that tab).
You must be a manager!
I wonder about the ability of a soldier to effectively multi-task. Not only is he in charge of his safety and that of his buddies, but also facing an enemy trying to kill him, and then having to lug around all this electronic stuff occasionally providing manual input into it. I have a tough enough time handling email/cell phone/my job daily I cannot imagine how difficult it is for the modern warrior.
It sucks too!
They do not need loyalty cards to track sales of healthy foods. They know *exactly* how much they are selling and how quickly by tracking what is on the shelves. So your point #1 is invalidated. They could give a shit about who buys all healthy foods versus who buys them occasionally. It all ends up in the sales figures, and that stuff that sells well gets more shelf space.
The fact that local grocery stores are limiting the shelf space for healthier food items is that people are preferring prepackaged, sweetened junk that often costs less. Given two alternatives side by side, one the healthy choice and the cheaper/easier/sweeter choice, if the junk food sells better this week/month, then gradually the healthy choice will be phased out. It seems people are preferring the less healthy food, and since it is increasing unavailable we are stuck in a vicious cycle and it will only get worse until folks start demanding the healthier alternatives.
Step #1, talk to your store manager. They have a lot of discretion on what they stock, even in the Stop&Shop/Publix/Kroger super places.
You don't have a "feel" for 70 degrees F for the same way that most American's couldn't tell you if an outside temperature of 35 degrees C is a cool, warm or hot day.
The only arrogance displayed here is intolerance. Someone made a mistake by posting a temperature from a summary on NPR.org, not from the original scientific journal (which uses C), and then as usual the Slashdot crowd goes off on a tangent about what units should be used. A simple correction in the first few posts would have been sufficiently helpful, but noooooo everyone is trying to be too funny or pedantic... knowing exactly what will ensue.
If the landline costs $30 a month, as the parent posts suggests, then a 1 year card w/ bonus codes for $100 giving 1100 minutes (so $8.33 per month), and 90 minutes of talk time per month is not a bad deal *for a child*.
I agree, for talking locally at the rate that most kids do, a landline with unlimited local calling makes a ton of sense over any pay-as-you-go cell plan. However if a person already has a family plan cell phone with unlimited minutes, the $10 extra phone line would make better sense.
I think you would likely have the same experience with other distributions also. I came back to linux after a few years not paying attention, I originally used SuSE 5.1 I think. When I came back to Linux last year I downloaded Ubuntu and had a similar experience as yours. Flawless installation, systems on an old laptop works great etc. etc.
I only wish suspend and hibernate worked with the current issue of Ubuntu. Something broke on my last upgrade.
Get your son his own cell phone. For $10 a month you can get a Tracfone in the U.S., or for that same amount you can often add a phone to a family plan. A heck of a lot cheaper than a landline.
With that said, my family is still on a landline. We do have the Tracfones but they end up being so expensive per minute that the landline plus a $.03 per minute MCI long distance card is the way we talk to family & friends most of the time. I used 23 cell phone minutes last month.
This is common, but from a kid's perspective, most would rather be sitting quietly or reading a book than doing more *work* than everyone else has to do.
:-)
My son is in 6th grade and has been at the top of his class since he joined school. He finished the No Child Left Behind mastery tests usually in 20 minutes or less even when the test was supposed to take between 60 and 90 minutes. Even given that, he scored in the 97th - 99th percentile for scores for the last three years (4th, 5th, 6th grade). He gets his smarts from his mother, but gets his motivation, or lack of it, from me.
I say all this because my experience with him and some of his classmates is exactly as described. In fact, we worry that the smart kids are rushing to get done just so they can get to the free time or reading time that much earlier. It almost becomes a race. If it wasn't for the fact that my son's scores are high, we'd have done somethign about it. The thing is, he was asked to be in an academically gifted program and he hated it, not because it wasn't interesting, but because it was more work!
I can see your point, but until we return to a policy of creating "smart kid" classes and "not-so-smart kid" classes, instead of the enforced homogeneous classes we have nowadays, it is unlikely that teachers will be able to cope with students that move at such different speeds. They try all kinds of strategies, like pairing the smart kids together into challenging reading groups, or assigning targeted homework, but 80% of the day is done together with everyone.
So there is an anti-trust investigation over the one legitimate copy of Windows in China?