Imagine that while "i" did what it normally does in VIM, "u" uninstalled it. The key to learning anything is experimentation. The key to learning anything well and quickly is to have a guide who is aware of that previous fact.
When you don't even know how to edit a simple text file, because the one you've got installed in VIM, whose interface is nothing like anything you've encountered so far; when [insert some more examples of the most rudimentary tasks becoming colossal undertakings]...
There's a certain level of expertise you need to get to before you can start crawling on your own. Show me a manual and a distro you think any intelligent person could make do with, and I'll show you five(*) places he couldn't have worked around without either a human's help or prior knowledge, acquired from watching a human interacting with a computer.
That is not to say that none of my questions are plain dumb; don't go digging up logs.
(*) I'm not a busy man, but I do have _some_ things I need to do.
(**) Alright, alright - add "in a reasonable amount of time" to all of the points I made in this post.
Why would they destory everything in there? Couldn't they just, you know, go on keeping it secret?
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Easily solvable, but yes, that's probably it. I'm a bit embarrassed about not having thought of it myself. Thanks, though there was no need for shouting. And I still don't see how faxing them the information is better than just e-mailing or snail-mailing it to them.
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Crap. OK, here it is with the br-s:
Does anyone have any idea why Paypal wouldn't let me reset my account by e-mailing them scans of certain documents, requiring me to fax it to them instead? This is one reason why I may be switching to GooglePay - I'm not opening a new e-mail account so I can have a new PayPal account. I didn't forget my PayPal password, I just couldn't remember which of my many passwords it was, and I got locked out before I could guess the right one. Another e-mail account, another PayPal account - this will just get worse.
So I'm kissing PayPal goodbye. Hey, I was a good customer for a long time, why wouldn't they just let me open a second account with the same e-mail? Only two accounts, clean history on the first - what's the problem?
Also, their call center... Having to say out loud "yes/no" to a machine that somehow fails to get it, instead of the good tried-and-true method of pressing a button - what's the big idea? Couldn't you at least provide both options? Man, that thing hung up on me about five times, and they were all international calls. Also, I don't mind them outsourcing their call center to India, not being an American myself, but only when they can find people with clear enough accents, as far as their average customer is concerned. International call to the USA, then through not-broad-enough-band VoIP to India, then an unfamiliar accent... uncomfortable.
(I actually love the Indian accent, but it's hard for me to understand what's being said.)
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Does anyone have any idea why Paypal wouldn't let me reset my account by e-mailing them scans of certain documents, requiring me to fax it to them instead? This is one reason why I may be switching to GooglePay - I'm not opening a new e-mail account so I can have a new PayPal account. I didn't forget my PayPal password, I just couldn't remember which of my many passwords it was, and I got locked out before I could guess the right one. Another e-mail account, another PayPal account - this will just get worse.
So I'm kissing PayPal goodbye. Hey, I was a good customer for a long time, why wouldn't they just let me open a second account with the same e-mail? Only two accounts, clean history on the first - what's the problem?
Also, their call center... Having to say out loud "yes/no" to a machine that somehow fails to get it, instead of the good tried-and-true method of pressing a button - what's the big idea? Couldn't you at least provide both options? Man, that thing hung up on me about five times, and they were all international calls. Also, I don't mind them outsourcing their call center to India, not being an American myself, but only when they can find people with clear enough accents, as far as their average customer is concerned. International call to the USA, then through not-broad-enough-band VoIP to India, then an unfamiliar accent... uncomfortable.
(I actually love the Indian accent, but it's hard for me to understand what's being said.)
Odd enough that one adult would need Wikipedia to tell him how to raise children, but two people like that hooking up? What were the odds? In case you still haven't quite figured it out - your schwing-schwong goes in her bajingo.
Rejecting Darwinism/Evolution/Whatever,youknowwhatImean is the hallmark of requiring findings to conform to certain preconceived notions you have on the subject. With those, error is often a matter of time, and correction is practically impossible.
You wrote an interesting message about German grammar, but I still don't see how this debunks my original point, which was - word compounding doesn't add expressive power to a language (finesse, yes - but not power), and as such, the existence of certain compound words in one language, but not in another, is very unlikely to result in a difference in the way speaker of those different languages think. Thinking of "AelterZaehne" and thinking of "elder/elderly/old/ancient/rotten teeth" doesn't strike me as different.
I would have modded you insightful. I bet there's a good correlation between the promiscuity of the women at a given society and its militaristic tendencies.
It's not about who was happier, it's about who was more likely to pass on their genes. Answer - those who were afraid enough of failure to act to prevent it (or blame it on someone else, avoiding the drawbacks of failure - effectively, avoiding failure itself), but not so much as to risk more than necessary or go into an obsessive loop.
There's no difference between sticking two words together and putting them side by side, as far as the expressive power of a language is concerned. As such, your example is irrelevant. What would be relevant is a single word of what we'll call reasonable length which would take a much greater number of words to translate into another language (not as a dictionary entry; in a sentence).
"Being analytical has nothing to do with disregarding the people around you"
Actually, what I meant was disregarding our experiences with the distorted adolescent society. Now in my early twenties, I find that people fit your description of neurotypical society much less. It may actually be due to the fact that I'm currently coming into contact with a less varied assortment of people, studying CS and math, but I don't think it is. Not entirely, anyhow.
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Imagine that while "i" did what it normally does in VIM, "u" uninstalled it. The key to learning anything is experimentation. The key to learning anything well and quickly is to have a guide who is aware of that previous fact.
When you don't even know how to edit a simple text file, because the one you've got installed in VIM, whose interface is nothing like anything you've encountered so far; when [insert some more examples of the most rudimentary tasks becoming colossal undertakings]...
There's a certain level of expertise you need to get to before you can start crawling on your own. Show me a manual and a distro you think any intelligent person could make do with, and I'll show you five(*) places he couldn't have worked around without either a human's help or prior knowledge, acquired from watching a human interacting with a computer.
That is not to say that none of my questions are plain dumb; don't go digging up logs.
(*) I'm not a busy man, but I do have _some_ things I need to do.
(**) Alright, alright - add "in a reasonable amount of time" to all of the points I made in this post.
Doesn't "mission-critical" mean "critical"?
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Linux, however, is poised to take over. This is it's year - honest.
Why would they destory everything in there? Couldn't they just, you know, go on keeping it secret?
Easily solvable, but yes, that's probably it. I'm a bit embarrassed about not having thought of it myself. Thanks, though there was no need for shouting. And I still don't see how faxing them the information is better than just e-mailing or snail-mailing it to them.
Crap. OK, here it is with the br-s:
Does anyone have any idea why Paypal wouldn't let me reset my account by e-mailing them scans of certain documents, requiring me to fax it to them instead? This is one reason why I may be switching to GooglePay - I'm not opening a new e-mail account so I can have a new PayPal account. I didn't forget my PayPal password, I just couldn't remember which of my many passwords it was, and I got locked out before I could guess the right one. Another e-mail account, another PayPal account - this will just get worse.
So I'm kissing PayPal goodbye. Hey, I was a good customer for a long time, why wouldn't they just let me open a second account with the same e-mail? Only two accounts, clean history on the first - what's the problem?
Also, their call center... Having to say out loud "yes/no" to a machine that somehow fails to get it, instead of the good tried-and-true method of pressing a button - what's the big idea? Couldn't you at least provide both options? Man, that thing hung up on me about five times, and they were all international calls. Also, I don't mind them outsourcing their call center to India, not being an American myself, but only when they can find people with clear enough accents, as far as their average customer is concerned. International call to the USA, then through not-broad-enough-band VoIP to India, then an unfamiliar accent... uncomfortable.
(I actually love the Indian accent, but it's hard for me to understand what's being said.)
Does anyone have any idea why Paypal wouldn't let me reset my account by e-mailing them scans of certain documents, requiring me to fax it to them instead? This is one reason why I may be switching to GooglePay - I'm not opening a new e-mail account so I can have a new PayPal account. I didn't forget my PayPal password, I just couldn't remember which of my many passwords it was, and I got locked out before I could guess the right one. Another e-mail account, another PayPal account - this will just get worse. So I'm kissing PayPal goodbye. Hey, I was a good customer for a long time, why wouldn't they just let me open a second account with the same e-mail? Only two accounts, clean history on the first - what's the problem? Also, their call center... Having to say out loud "yes/no" to a machine that somehow fails to get it, instead of the good tried-and-true method of pressing a button - what's the big idea? Couldn't you at least provide both options? Man, that thing hung up on me about five times, and they were all international calls. Also, I don't mind them outsourcing their call center to India, not being an American myself, but only when they can find people with clear enough accents, as far as their average customer is concerned. International call to the USA, then through not-broad-enough-band VoIP to India, then an unfamiliar accent... uncomfortable. (I actually love the Indian accent, but it's hard for me to understand what's being said.)
Where can I find that game?
Odd enough that one adult would need Wikipedia to tell him how to raise children, but two people like that hooking up? What were the odds? In case you still haven't quite figured it out - your schwing-schwong goes in her bajingo.
Was he an English "tteacher" by any chance?
Rejecting Darwinism/Evolution/Whatever,youknowwhatImean is the hallmark of requiring findings to conform to certain preconceived notions you have on the subject. With those, error is often a matter of time, and correction is practically impossible.
I didn't want to say I'll have told you so...
Ajax? The floors-cleaning stuff? Next time you go through that phase, give me a call.
I meant, of course, "Älterzähne", not "ÄlterZähne". Not sure how that captial letter sneaked its way inside there.
You wrote an interesting message about German grammar, but I still don't see how this debunks my original point, which was - word compounding doesn't add expressive power to a language (finesse, yes - but not power), and as such, the existence of certain compound words in one language, but not in another, is very unlikely to result in a difference in the way speaker of those different languages think. Thinking of "AelterZaehne" and thinking of "elder/elderly/old/ancient/rotten teeth" doesn't strike me as different.
I would have modded you insightful. I bet there's a good correlation between the promiscuity of the women at a given society and its militaristic tendencies.
It's not about who was happier, it's about who was more likely to pass on their genes. Answer - those who were afraid enough of failure to act to prevent it (or blame it on someone else, avoiding the drawbacks of failure - effectively, avoiding failure itself), but not so much as to risk more than necessary or go into an obsessive loop.
We don't have much water here in Israel. If someone imports enough of those "front showers", in one month, we'll all die of thirst.
Seriously, where do we send our CVs?
German, as well as any other language I know of, has a rule about sticking two words next to each other - its grammar.
There's no difference between sticking two words together and putting them side by side, as far as the expressive power of a language is concerned. As such, your example is irrelevant. What would be relevant is a single word of what we'll call reasonable length which would take a much greater number of words to translate into another language (not as a dictionary entry; in a sentence).