I think it would make sense if we changed our time to base 10 instead of base 60. 100 milliseconds per second, 100 seconds per minute, 100 minutes per hour, 10 hours per day. Because it makes sense to change the easiest method of telling time that billions are accustomed too in order to fit a pretty-on-paper standard.:|
a) This isn't malware and b) FreeBSD can run Linux apps for the most part so once malware encroaches Linux, a lot of *nix systems will be in potential trouble.
If it really bothers you this much when usage stats are collected, then you can't really gloss over things like the TOS and EULA... you can't have it both ways.
I came across his name and immediately thought of the Paint.NET discussion from yesterday...it was one of those things where I'd read a lot about someone and suddenly their name starts popping up everywhere.. even if they aren't the same person. But very ironic; I noticed it and related it to the old article and then you mentioned his name also.
good point, thank goodness they don't allow articles on various subjects to be added to wikipedia willy nilly. there would be no way to judge their accuracy because there would just be too many. good call.
I know exactly what you mean. Some people over there take everything way to seriously when it comes down to it. I remember some people wanted to delete the Uncyclopedia article just because it COVERED a humorous self-referential topic, despite Uncyclopedia's large influence and popularity. Some people were literally up in arms freaking out that a) Wikipedia could be mocked (even by a wiki HOSTED on Wikia [then, Wikicities] servers) and b) that Wikipedia would cover the topic because obviously anything not completely anal retentive was uninfluential and unimportant to Wikipedia.
Maybe I'm just giving up to easy, but I have a hard time getting over the single mouse button. Boy, did you hear about that Windows 98 tech demo with the blue screen of death? Funny stuff! I'm having a hard time getting over that lol
Oh come off it. Linux is cool and Mac is cool. I'm using Mac right now for general stuff and have Ubuntu ready to run in parallels. Sometimes I just want things to work, sometimes I want a lot of control and the ability to do much more complicated stuff. Geeks need to make their peace with simplicity because sometimes the simple choice is the better choice, and geeks just have the benefit of understanding more complex stuff as well when they need to.
Why are people always so pessimistic about humanity's accomplishments? Sure, there are probably civilizations more advanced than ours if there are in fact extraterrestrial civilizations, but maybe some places are home to Stone Age equivalent beings, or animals that are non-sentient, etc. Maybe there are worlds where there are beings so close to humans that they are almost imperceptible, due to such close similarities between they're planet and ours. Maybe they have Kingdoms of Life that almost parallel ours, with just different beings. Beings that could fit into some of our broader groups in taxonomy, and yet do not exist on our world, due to similar but varied evolution.
I'm still waiting for the Mars Rover to find mysterious floating cubes and tablets depicting demons and humanoid creatures migrating to Earth amidst a mortal vs demon war millenia ago.
to clarify: i smoke weed rarely and tobacco never and i mean when people toss cigs out in the dark when im high, not in general:P i realized the verb "smoke" wasnt very clear
Interesting, I actually was going to try that the other day for completely different reasons but explorer crashed when i doubled clicked the clock on xp's taskbar (i wish i were kidding but i'm actually 100% serious). Anyway, I have experienced this other ways when people toss cigarrette butts in the dark, there are bright orange trails and it seems to take the butt a long time to hit the ground before it erupts into sparks and embers. I'm not sure if the butt actually moved slower or if the trails just gave the perception it moved slower though. I dunno, i smoke quite rarely so I cant say with certainty.
Does anyone else feel that this press release is an advertisement in disguise, in and of itself? "Our product is so popular that we're actually going to cut back advertising because we probably don't have enough and if you aren't one of the people contributing to the problem, then you are clearly the minority and are not 'with it.' Please desire a Wii for Christmas, now that we have informed you of how popular they are in an advertisement masquerading as a press release that claims we are cutting back advertisements for the product."
I have a set up with a Stanton T50X turntable, a Circuit City RCA preamp and my computer; I plug the tt into the preamp and with an RCA->Phono cable I have the output go to the line in on my sound card...The only problem is vinyl cannot be ripped faster than it is played (unless maybe you rip a 33 at 45 and change the playback speed digitally, not sure if that would work).
So... you're running a proprietary firewall with a license to update for the sole purpose of preventing Adobe Reader from being allowed to connect to the internet? Or am I missing something?
Okay great, but now let's look at the real world where the majority of citizens accept that some form of tax exists in their government and would prefer that their tax dollars, which they already have to pay, are put to good use.
Yeah but it was the government doing it and 1984 represented an extreme communist/authoritarian state. If it's corporations doing it in a capitalist market where the consumer decides what they want as opposed to the government doing it and not letting the consumer decide anything except to obey or die, then the worst that could happen is on the other end of the spectrum from 1984. Free market economy and personal freedom is the anti-1984 and communism fails in practice. That was the message of 1984 and of George Orwell. Facebook is definitely indicative of capitalism and success (college dropout becomes billionaire is becoming a type of American hero in our tech driven world).
Clearly you have trouble understanding short and clear sentences because the original poster clearly stated that schools encouraged "short and clear" (emphasis added) sentences as opposed to sentences which were clear because they were short or vice versa and on top of that long sentences like this one aren't always necessarily clear.
I agree with you but I would like to add how I feel it's ridiculous that people can't program stuff outside of Java and C# because of colleges teaching it. I am a college freshman and I am learning everything in Java but I'm confident I could translate the ideas to other languages if I were to learn the syntax. But then again, I'm actually interested in computers and have been since 8th grade, some people I feel just major in compsci with no real interest in it. But what are you really learning if you can't move it over to different settings? Technically Java is the language we learn with but what we're learning is language independent for the most part. Java and C# are good in their own right but Universities employ them as training languages not end-all languages, it's the people who never really learned anything who can't think outside the box.
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I think it would make sense if we changed our time to base 10 instead of base 60. 100 milliseconds per second, 100 seconds per minute, 100 minutes per hour, 10 hours per day. Because it makes sense to change the easiest method of telling time that billions are accustomed too in order to fit a pretty-on-paper standard. :|
lol proud to be in all three categories :P I know standards, have no job in web development and I dont teach.
a) This isn't malware and b) FreeBSD can run Linux apps for the most part so once malware encroaches Linux, a lot of *nix systems will be in potential trouble.
If it really bothers you this much when usage stats are collected, then you can't really gloss over things like the TOS and EULA... you can't have it both ways.
I came across his name and immediately thought of the Paint.NET discussion from yesterday...it was one of those things where I'd read a lot about someone and suddenly their name starts popping up everywhere.. even if they aren't the same person. But very ironic; I noticed it and related it to the old article and then you mentioned his name also.
good point, thank goodness they don't allow articles on various subjects to be added to wikipedia willy nilly. there would be no way to judge their accuracy because there would just be too many. good call.
I know exactly what you mean. Some people over there take everything way to seriously when it comes down to it. I remember some people wanted to delete the Uncyclopedia article just because it COVERED a humorous self-referential topic, despite Uncyclopedia's large influence and popularity. Some people were literally up in arms freaking out that a) Wikipedia could be mocked (even by a wiki HOSTED on Wikia [then, Wikicities] servers) and b) that Wikipedia would cover the topic because obviously anything not completely anal retentive was uninfluential and unimportant to Wikipedia.
Oh come off it. Linux is cool and Mac is cool. I'm using Mac right now for general stuff and have Ubuntu ready to run in parallels. Sometimes I just want things to work, sometimes I want a lot of control and the ability to do much more complicated stuff. Geeks need to make their peace with simplicity because sometimes the simple choice is the better choice, and geeks just have the benefit of understanding more complex stuff as well when they need to.
Why are people always so pessimistic about humanity's accomplishments? Sure, there are probably civilizations more advanced than ours if there are in fact extraterrestrial civilizations, but maybe some places are home to Stone Age equivalent beings, or animals that are non-sentient, etc. Maybe there are worlds where there are beings so close to humans that they are almost imperceptible, due to such close similarities between they're planet and ours. Maybe they have Kingdoms of Life that almost parallel ours, with just different beings. Beings that could fit into some of our broader groups in taxonomy, and yet do not exist on our world, due to similar but varied evolution.
I'm still waiting for the Mars Rover to find mysterious floating cubes and tablets depicting demons and humanoid creatures migrating to Earth amidst a mortal vs demon war millenia ago.
I originally read that as "blackout" but yours makes sense, too :P
to clarify: i smoke weed rarely and tobacco never and i mean when people toss cigs out in the dark when im high, not in general :P i realized the verb "smoke" wasnt very clear
Interesting, I actually was going to try that the other day for completely different reasons but explorer crashed when i doubled clicked the clock on xp's taskbar (i wish i were kidding but i'm actually 100% serious). Anyway, I have experienced this other ways when people toss cigarrette butts in the dark, there are bright orange trails and it seems to take the butt a long time to hit the ground before it erupts into sparks and embers. I'm not sure if the butt actually moved slower or if the trails just gave the perception it moved slower though. I dunno, i smoke quite rarely so I cant say with certainty.
kind of like... Reptar? On Ice?
Does anyone else feel that this press release is an advertisement in disguise, in and of itself? "Our product is so popular that we're actually going to cut back advertising because we probably don't have enough and if you aren't one of the people contributing to the problem, then you are clearly the minority and are not 'with it.' Please desire a Wii for Christmas, now that we have informed you of how popular they are in an advertisement masquerading as a press release that claims we are cutting back advertisements for the product."
I have a set up with a Stanton T50X turntable, a Circuit City RCA preamp and my computer; I plug the tt into the preamp and with an RCA->Phono cable I have the output go to the line in on my sound card...The only problem is vinyl cannot be ripped faster than it is played (unless maybe you rip a 33 at 45 and change the playback speed digitally, not sure if that would work).
So... you're running a proprietary firewall with a license to update for the sole purpose of preventing Adobe Reader from being allowed to connect to the internet? Or am I missing something?
If you want to talk about absolute numbers, then you should (no offense) get some absolute numbers.
Okay great, but now let's look at the real world where the majority of citizens accept that some form of tax exists in their government and would prefer that their tax dollars, which they already have to pay, are put to good use.
Yeah but it was the government doing it and 1984 represented an extreme communist/authoritarian state. If it's corporations doing it in a capitalist market where the consumer decides what they want as opposed to the government doing it and not letting the consumer decide anything except to obey or die, then the worst that could happen is on the other end of the spectrum from 1984. Free market economy and personal freedom is the anti-1984 and communism fails in practice. That was the message of 1984 and of George Orwell. Facebook is definitely indicative of capitalism and success (college dropout becomes billionaire is becoming a type of American hero in our tech driven world).
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Clearly you have trouble understanding short and clear sentences because the original poster clearly stated that schools encouraged "short and clear" (emphasis added) sentences as opposed to sentences which were clear because they were short or vice versa and on top of that long sentences like this one aren't always necessarily clear.
You mean leopard is just win2k with a new skin 3 generations removed :P
I agree with you but I would like to add how I feel it's ridiculous that people can't program stuff outside of Java and C# because of colleges teaching it. I am a college freshman and I am learning everything in Java but I'm confident I could translate the ideas to other languages if I were to learn the syntax. But then again, I'm actually interested in computers and have been since 8th grade, some people I feel just major in compsci with no real interest in it. But what are you really learning if you can't move it over to different settings? Technically Java is the language we learn with but what we're learning is language independent for the most part. Java and C# are good in their own right but Universities employ them as training languages not end-all languages, it's the people who never really learned anything who can't think outside the box.