You're not happy with the buggy-whip analogy because nobody wants them anymore. We'll leave your rhetoric aside for the moment.
You like air. You use a fair bit of it. You expect it to be free; it always has been.
Imagine the air got sooooo polluted that you could only breath it by using filtermasks. You would essentially be paying to breathe. By sponsoring the polluters and not forcing them to pay for secondary effects of pollution, the governments are effectively giving filtermask producers a limited monopoly on breathing.
If the air ceases to be polluted, do you then have an obligation to support the filtermask manufacturers?
Just because you want something, and it exists, does not mean that natural law dictates that you must pay someone for it.
From your spec page, the iMac takes 130W maximum continuous.
That means the processor is pegged, the hard drive is grinding, and you are burning a DVD over the network and downloading an ISO over the modem while blasting brit-pop over the builtin speakers. Oh, and running a 3D benchmarking application.
I agree with most of what you're saying, but it may be too advanced for this young nerd.
The important thing to be learned by applying analytic skills and observation is not a social skill. It is a rulebase. E.g., "why do those kids make fun of your uncombed hair?" "Because conformity to some basic standards of personal grooming is a _basis_." There are dozens of bases to successful social interaction, and by and large they make no sense.
But if you reject the sour-grapes parental advice of "you don't want friends who think that stupid things like that are important anyhow," then you _must_ learn that those rules exist.
Give the kid a copy of "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman."
He comes across as an arrogant bastard, but I sure did enjoy the chapter about the intellectual challenge presented by learning how to pick up chicks.
N.b.: Feynman's technique was probably valid in the 50s, and is definitely not useful now. The valuable part is getting this kid to treat "learning social skills" as an intellectual exercise.
I use a Melita cone which isn't that much different from your Chorreador. The only real difference is that it uses paper filters instead of cloth -- which I prefer, because I grind my own and find that cloth, like metal mesh, lets fine particulate get through.
But really, if you're into amusing ways to brew coffee, I'm surprised you didn't bring up the amazingly cool-looking Vacuum Percolator.
When I, an anglophone Canadian, spend long periods of time in the Eastern US, I am continually amused by subtle reminders of what an alien culture y'all have.
And I'm not just talking about the candy bars, either.
Whenever I hear something like this, I cringe. If you asked a UI designer for the probable intent of "dragging a program shortcut to a backup device," what do you think they would tell you?
It can only reasonably mean one of two things: 1. Back up this program, or 2. Back up the user files associated with this program.
The principles in UI design should be:
1. What is a list of all the tasks a user might want to do? 2. What is a list of all the ways a user might try to interact with the UI? 3. Is there a complete and logical mapping?
If there are undefined cases, then the UI is broken. If there are cases where an interaction has multiple intuitive meanings, the UI is broken. If the common functions are not accessible by intuitive interaction, then the UI is broken.
Why is it perfectly acceptable for a set of software in common use by millions of people to have an utterly broken UI?
OK, so why can't I, in NYC, purchase a cell plan in a different zone, say LA? Why is it necessary that I have a mailing address in the zone where I want service?
This sounds to me like just another arbitrary way to shaft the customer.
Objectively indeed, but on a larger scale: how can you claim that this is a valid business path?
The whole point of the IP system is to encourage innovation. This is the poster-child case for the failure of the current system; it does quite the opposite. It is encouraging SCO to
a) take a path where they do not innovate, and
b) bend all of their resources towards stifling innovation in others.
Independent musicians would still get almost nothing, unless they were popular enough to get a large share.
This scheme doesn't work for me because I have absolutely no interest in sending money to Celine Dion and Britney Spears. I want my money to go to smaller artists.
I've had a friend turned back because he wasn't carrying the original of his Bachelor's degree. It's absurd, and it's never happened to anyone else, but the point is that there is absolutely no recourse. If you don't like the judgement of the INS officer in question, you pretty much have the option of sucking it up or taking the proverbial flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.
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The real question is why you, who appear passionately interested in this topic, have not provided any links with relevant background information.
I'm mildly curious, but the merely curious are lazy. Certainly I'm not sufficiently interested to sift through all the press releases and mailing list posts to actually find more than the firstcouple of nuggets of digestible information.
If you already know something about the project, you are much better placed than I to do a little background research. Go for it!
The poll mechanism already in place would be an excellent way to collect/. user experience with different hardware vendors, and perhaps other things like online vendors. I for one would be very interested to see non-sponsored surveys of satisfaction among a relatively technical audience.
It seems to me that having a database of this sort of information would go a long way towards a) removing this sort of Ask Slashdot, which is pretty pointless beyond being a good way to rant, and b) actively improving the sad state of affairs in the world of technical support and customer relations.
TN policy is not concrete. It varies from officer to officer, based on the phase of the moon, side-of-bed wavelength, and officer perception of the cut of your jib. The background documentation requirements in particular seem to vary immensely from applicant to applicant, and require an average of about 1.8 visits to INS per applicant.
My recommendation to grease the application is to pick a way-early non-critical time for your first trip across, and assume that you will be turned back for incorrect supporting documents. For that reason, if you're coming from a city with a Canadian airport with on-site INS services, you are well advised to make your first attempt there. You will almost certainly be returning home the first time.
A friend attempted to go to the airport the day before his flight, simply in order to process all of the paperwork. He was hassled to no end for "assuming his application would fail."
My interpretation is that their job is to give you a good hassling, simply to see if you crack under the stress and let something slip. If that psychology is correct, then your task is to: a) demonstrate that you are in fact feeling the stress, while b) maintaining consistent facts.
Once you have the visa, it simplifies your life immensely. Not quite at the point of waving it out the window as you drive through, but pretty close.
It might make a good _option_ but I hope it never becomes mandatory. One thing that I absosmurfly love about KDE is holding down alt and resizing any window with the right mouse button.
I am constantly trying to use this functionality on MDI child-windows, and it drives me absolutely mad that I can't.
I'm sure that there are lots of similar "cool window management tricks" in other WMs that you lose when you go to an MDI interface.
In the article's example, hit #2 for "prozac suicide" links to a page discussing mexican recipes. The page bears no relevance whatsoever to the search terms, except that you can possibly find a way to buy prozac from the page.
It's a moderator protest to the absence of a moderation for (Score: +1, Concise).
Really, though, I do think I said something different. What I described is no more convoluted than the interaction of your mind and a ball which you have dropped. In that scenario, your mind (by opening your hand) allows gravity to do its mysterious work on the ball.
If you stipulate that it is possible for Yoda's brain to remotely exert a force on the spaceship, then it should also be plausible that Yoda can similarly cause his _surroundings_ to remotely exert a force on the spaceship.
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You're not happy with the buggy-whip analogy because nobody wants them anymore. We'll leave your rhetoric aside for the moment.
You like air. You use a fair bit of it. You expect it to be free; it always has been.
Imagine the air got sooooo polluted that you could only breath it by using filtermasks. You would essentially be paying to breathe. By sponsoring the polluters and not forcing them to pay for secondary effects of pollution, the governments are effectively giving filtermask producers a limited monopoly on breathing.
If the air ceases to be polluted, do you then have an obligation to support the filtermask manufacturers?
Just because you want something, and it exists, does not mean that natural law dictates that you must pay someone for it.
From your spec page, the iMac takes 130W maximum continuous.
That means the processor is pegged, the hard drive is grinding, and you are burning a DVD over the network and downloading an ISO over the modem while blasting brit-pop over the builtin speakers. Oh, and running a 3D benchmarking application.
An unlikely scenario.
Yup, absolutely. I'm from Ontario, and firmly disagree with the grandparent poster.
A mayfly is not a junebug.
Seagate corporation appears to disagree with you.
Buy yourself a set of pens and a how-to book on Caligraphy. It's very slow and tedious, but it will teach you the patience necessary to write legibly.
You need to learn to use backticks. The command you're looking for is something like
rm `find . -name "*.log" -mtime 7`
I agree with most of what you're saying, but it may be too advanced for this young nerd.
The important thing to be learned by applying analytic skills and observation is not a social skill. It is a rulebase. E.g., "why do those kids make fun of your uncombed hair?" "Because conformity to some basic standards of personal grooming is a _basis_." There are dozens of bases to successful social interaction, and by and large they make no sense.
But if you reject the sour-grapes parental advice of "you don't want friends who think that stupid things like that are important anyhow," then you _must_ learn that those rules exist.
Give the kid a copy of "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman."
He comes across as an arrogant bastard, but I sure did enjoy the chapter about the intellectual challenge presented by learning how to pick up chicks.
N.b.: Feynman's technique was probably valid in the 50s, and is definitely not useful now. The valuable part is getting this kid to treat "learning social skills" as an intellectual exercise.
I.e., what makes these stupid apes TICK?
I use a Melita cone which isn't that much different from your Chorreador. The only real difference is that it uses paper filters instead of cloth -- which I prefer, because I grind my own and find that cloth, like metal mesh, lets fine particulate get through.
But really, if you're into amusing ways to brew coffee, I'm surprised you didn't bring up the amazingly cool-looking Vacuum Percolator.
How entertaining.
When I, an anglophone Canadian, spend long periods of time in the Eastern US, I am continually amused by subtle reminders of what an alien culture y'all have.
And I'm not just talking about the candy bars, either.
Whenever I hear something like this, I cringe. If you asked a UI designer for the probable intent of "dragging a program shortcut to a backup device," what do you think they would tell you?
It can only reasonably mean one of two things:
1. Back up this program, or
2. Back up the user files associated with this program.
The principles in UI design should be:
1. What is a list of all the tasks a user might want to do?
2. What is a list of all the ways a user might try to interact with the UI?
3. Is there a complete and logical mapping?
If there are undefined cases, then the UI is broken. If there are cases where an interaction has multiple intuitive meanings, the UI is broken. If the common functions are not accessible by intuitive interaction, then the UI is broken.
Why is it perfectly acceptable for a set of software in common use by millions of people to have an utterly broken UI?
OK, so why can't I, in NYC, purchase a cell plan in a different zone, say LA? Why is it necessary that I have a mailing address in the zone where I want service?
This sounds to me like just another arbitrary way to shaft the customer.
Objectively indeed, but on a larger scale: how can you claim that this is a valid business path?
The whole point of the IP system is to encourage innovation. This is the poster-child case for the failure of the current system; it does quite the opposite. It is encouraging SCO to
a) take a path where they do not innovate, and
b) bend all of their resources towards stifling innovation in others.
Independent musicians would still get almost nothing, unless they were popular enough to get a large share.
This scheme doesn't work for me because I have absolutely no interest in sending money to Celine Dion and Britney Spears. I want my money to go to smaller artists.
I've had a friend turned back because he wasn't carrying the original of his Bachelor's degree. It's absurd, and it's never happened to anyone else, but the point is that there is absolutely no recourse. If you don't like the judgement of the INS officer in question, you pretty much have the option of sucking it up or taking the proverbial flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.
The real question is why you, who appear passionately interested in this topic, have not provided any links with relevant background information.
I'm mildly curious, but the merely curious are lazy. Certainly I'm not sufficiently interested to sift through all the press releases and mailing list posts to actually find more than the first couple of nuggets of digestible information.
If you already know something about the project, you are much better placed than I to do a little background research. Go for it!
The poll mechanism already in place would be an excellent way to collect /. user experience with different hardware vendors, and perhaps other things like online vendors. I for one would be very interested to see non-sponsored surveys of satisfaction among a relatively technical audience.
It seems to me that having a database of this sort of information would go a long way towards
a) removing this sort of Ask Slashdot, which is pretty pointless beyond being a good way to rant, and
b) actively improving the sad state of affairs in the world of technical support and customer relations.
Have you ever tried to emit those types of compound documents without using any Microsoft controls? I.e., on another platform? A non-trivial task.
I speak as one who recently used a TN-1.
TN policy is not concrete. It varies from officer to officer, based on the phase of the moon, side-of-bed wavelength, and officer perception of the cut of your jib. The background documentation requirements in particular seem to vary immensely from applicant to applicant, and require an average of about 1.8 visits to INS per applicant.
My recommendation to grease the application is to pick a way-early non-critical time for your first trip across, and assume that you will be turned back for incorrect supporting documents. For that reason, if you're coming from a city with a Canadian airport with on-site INS services, you are well advised to make your first attempt there. You will almost certainly be returning home the first time.
A friend attempted to go to the airport the day before his flight, simply in order to process all of the paperwork. He was hassled to no end for "assuming his application would fail."
My interpretation is that their job is to give you a good hassling, simply to see if you crack under the stress and let something slip. If that psychology is correct, then your task is to:
a) demonstrate that you are in fact feeling the stress, while
b) maintaining consistent facts.
Once you have the visa, it simplifies your life immensely. Not quite at the point of waving it out the window as you drive through, but pretty close.
It might make a good _option_ but I hope it never becomes mandatory. One thing that I absosmurfly love about KDE is holding down alt and resizing any window with the right mouse button.
I am constantly trying to use this functionality on MDI child-windows, and it drives me absolutely mad that I can't.
I'm sure that there are lots of similar "cool window management tricks" in other WMs that you lose when you go to an MDI interface.
In the article's example, hit #2 for "prozac suicide" links to a page discussing mexican recipes. The page bears no relevance whatsoever to the search terms, except that you can possibly find a way to buy prozac from the page.
It is ad-pollution, plain and simple.
Not only did it take ages to find, it's useless. They use a session ID or something.
Wankers.
Don't be ridiculous. Perl was always intended as a WORN language.
let WORN = "Write Once Read Never"
It's a moderator protest to the absence of a moderation for (Score: +1, Concise).
Really, though, I do think I said something different. What I described is no more convoluted than the interaction of your mind and a ball which you have dropped. In that scenario, your mind (by opening your hand) allows gravity to do its mysterious work on the ball.
If you stipulate that it is possible for Yoda's brain to remotely exert a force on the spaceship, then it should also be plausible that Yoda can similarly cause his _surroundings_ to remotely exert a force on the spaceship.