For really common tasks such as copy/paste/search/undo, keyboard shortcuts are better. Even some fairly clueless users know how to use those.
I think the OO presentation software is called "Impress". Anyone writing a description and tagging this software to use with a Gnome DO/Windows 7/"HUD" style search box would likely tag it with words such as "presentation" and "powerpoint".
Unless you decide to keep up in programming languages whatever you learn is going to be completely and uterly useless
That's one of the strangest things I've ever heard here. "Completely and utterly". 100%. Really? They're going to have to learn what an if statement or a loop is all over again? They're not going to understand assignments or function calls? Past experience of data typing and object oriented features aren't going to be useful?
There is a whole lot that carries over from one language to the next - unless obviously you look into functional programming or something like that, in which case a different approach is required. But the most popular and common languages out there share a whole lot of genetic material.
As you implied at the end there, if you teach people to program (ie how to break a problem down in such a way that you can then direct a computer to solve it using a set of logical instructions) - rather than just teach them how the language fits together - then the language is fairly irrelevant.
Of course it's a word. You can add all sorts of prefixes and suffixes to existing words, and they will still be "real" words.
The problem here is that the word actually means the opposite of what the guy wanted to say.
It's the same as all those idiots who say "I could give a [thing]" instead of "I couldn't give a [thing]" when they are trying to imply they don't care.
They're not actually thinking about the words they're saying - they're just repeating a bunch of syllables that they've heard (or misheard) from someone else.
I saw a thread about "ain't" below. I have no problem with contractions, and don't see why anybody should. They're adding to the language in a logical manner, rather than watering it down by rendering standard prefixes and suffixes meaningless.
I've watched an hour so far, and it's surprisingly watchable for such a mish-mash! There have been plenty of comedy moments, and some awesome ideas/styles:)
I wouldn't recommend it to those who haven't seen the original a few times, but that's unlikely around these parts!
I used to be pissed off at Americans always going on about rights/constitution-this, right-to-bear-arms-that online 15 years ago, and since then you've let your government rape you repeatedly. So it would seem to be you and all your buddies that are the "worthless, cock-sucking, America-destroying" assholes.
Here in the UK people don't seem to get so irate over stupid little things like CCTV systems. I get annoyed about the fluids limit on planes since that's clearly retarded, but I don't have much problem with some of the other things that you guys go batshit-crazy over (all talk, mind you). If it got to the stage where something was clearly on a slippery slope, then I'd consider getting involved in politics, but I don't consider all slopes so heavily slippery as everyone else does.
The protests against SOPA/PIPA are just about the only effective protest I've even heard of in a decade. And I wasn't even that bothered about it, because I thought if the US government really want to segregate themselves from the world and fuck over their own economy that badly, let them learn the hard way.
I'm thinking more "pussy" than "terrorist" in this case.
I don't mind the checks themselves, I mind the mindset that puts them there - and the stories I've heard from friends and read here of foreigners being treated like shit by US border officials.
Just because you have a right, doesn't mean you need to use it, especially if it means sitting around in an airport for hours just because you're worried someone might touch your junk as they pat down your legs. I understand that most slashdotters are probably introverts, but I just find pat downs amusing. Maybe I've watched too many action movies.
Now cavity searches I'd have a problem with, but not a simple pat down.
Well, I'm not American. I also have no idea about my right when it cons to stuff like pat downs. I don't however like the idea of paying for 2 flights just to avoid having another person touch me, especially since I have nothing to hide.
I wasn't thinking weapons, I was more thinking drugs as so e other guy said. I definitely think politics attracts that sales/management type asshole who is into his coke and hookers.
I think a simpler answer is that blocking "ad farm" type pages will simply improve the relevance of search results - no matter where the ads are coming from.
The happiest scenario would be for MS to buy RIM, and run out of money trying to turn it around:) Then we could be rid of two of the worst UI offenders in one go.
Note that I said that stuff about citizens after reading the self defence part, and before reading the death penalty part. I probably should have rephrased it after that!
What I meant was obviously that the vast majority of people try to do no harm unless it's in self defence. Then I was a bit surprised to read the death penalty thing. Again it comes down to values and whatever they consider to be "criminal", which may involve less-common sexual practices and so forth, the same as Islam. People in western civilisations are punished for certain sexual preferences too, practices which are accepted - or at least not illegal - in other cultures. The age of consent varies from place to place, and sex with animals is legal in some countries. It's all just localised groupthink when you get down to it.
You're using your own values to define what "good" is though. To a deeply religious person, good is whatever their god/book says is good. To a non religious person, good probably involves trying to keep everyone happy.
It sounds like your values actually do align with ahimsa. In fact it sounds to me to be pretty much what western law expects of citizens too. In fact it sounds like they also have stuff in common with Islam:
Hindu scriptures and law books support the use of violence in self-defense against an armed attacker.[34] They make it clear that criminals are not protected by the rule of ahinsa.[35] They have no misgivings about the death penalty; their position is that evil-doers who deserve death should be killed, and that a king in particular is obliged to punish criminals and should not hesitate to kill them, even if they happen to be his own brothers and sons.
What do you expect when you live in a democracy where a large part of the population are Christians? That's not a problem with the law - it's a problem with your culture.
I don't think it "morally equivalent" as I personally define morals, but I recognise that's only because of the way I've been brought up. If I were brought up in an Islamic nation I'd have a different viewpoint. Thankfully I wasn't - Allah be praised.
I just find the notion of "some values are better than others" strange/amusing, since by definition it is always going to be your own values that are "better than others". Setting a scale which inverts itself depending on your own position is rather circular, so "better" just seems like the wrong word to choose. "More humane" might be a better way of putting it.
My own reason for despising Islam and Christianity would first and foremost be from the blatant lies that they propagate. It doesn't surprise me that training people to suspend their critical functions so as to avoid cognitive dissonance results in a load of messed up behaviours.
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For really common tasks such as copy/paste/search/undo, keyboard shortcuts are better. Even some fairly clueless users know how to use those.
I think the OO presentation software is called "Impress". Anyone writing a description and tagging this software to use with a Gnome DO/Windows 7/"HUD" style search box would likely tag it with words such as "presentation" and "powerpoint".
It does if he has a gun pointed to his head while getting a blow job.. man that was an awful film..
Unless you decide to keep up in programming languages whatever you learn is going to be completely and uterly useless
That's one of the strangest things I've ever heard here. "Completely and utterly". 100%. Really? They're going to have to learn what an if statement or a loop is all over again? They're not going to understand assignments or function calls? Past experience of data typing and object oriented features aren't going to be useful?
There is a whole lot that carries over from one language to the next - unless obviously you look into functional programming or something like that, in which case a different approach is required. But the most popular and common languages out there share a whole lot of genetic material.
As you implied at the end there, if you teach people to program (ie how to break a problem down in such a way that you can then direct a computer to solve it using a set of logical instructions) - rather than just teach them how the language fits together - then the language is fairly irrelevant.
Of course it's a word. You can add all sorts of prefixes and suffixes to existing words, and they will still be "real" words.
The problem here is that the word actually means the opposite of what the guy wanted to say.
It's the same as all those idiots who say "I could give a [thing]" instead of "I couldn't give a [thing]" when they are trying to imply they don't care.
They're not actually thinking about the words they're saying - they're just repeating a bunch of syllables that they've heard (or misheard) from someone else.
I saw a thread about "ain't" below. I have no problem with contractions, and don't see why anybody should. They're adding to the language in a logical manner, rather than watering it down by rendering standard prefixes and suffixes meaningless.
That's hilarious coming from a bunch of guys who're terrified of another human being touching them.
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I've watched an hour so far, and it's surprisingly watchable for such a mish-mash! There have been plenty of comedy moments, and some awesome ideas/styles :)
I wouldn't recommend it to those who haven't seen the original a few times, but that's unlikely around these parts!
Such as.. commenting on Slashdot? This is a really unique arts project, and it's probably worth watch through just for the laughs.
Actually, I'm not American.
I used to be pissed off at Americans always going on about rights/constitution-this, right-to-bear-arms-that online 15 years ago, and since then you've let your government rape you repeatedly. So it would seem to be you and all your buddies that are the "worthless, cock-sucking, America-destroying" assholes.
Here in the UK people don't seem to get so irate over stupid little things like CCTV systems. I get annoyed about the fluids limit on planes since that's clearly retarded, but I don't have much problem with some of the other things that you guys go batshit-crazy over (all talk, mind you). If it got to the stage where something was clearly on a slippery slope, then I'd consider getting involved in politics, but I don't consider all slopes so heavily slippery as everyone else does.
The protests against SOPA/PIPA are just about the only effective protest I've even heard of in a decade. And I wasn't even that bothered about it, because I thought if the US government really want to segregate themselves from the world and fuck over their own economy that badly, let them learn the hard way.
Of course, they'd be the first thing that I think of when I hear "ad farm"..
Duh. That's the entire point of security checks in the first place.
All the rules about fluids are BS, but I don't understand the ire over pat-downs.
I'm thinking more "pussy" than "terrorist" in this case.
I don't mind the checks themselves, I mind the mindset that puts them there - and the stories I've heard from friends and read here of foreigners being treated like shit by US border officials.
Just because you have a right, doesn't mean you need to use it, especially if it means sitting around in an airport for hours just because you're worried someone might touch your junk as they pat down your legs. I understand that most slashdotters are probably introverts, but I just find pat downs amusing. Maybe I've watched too many action movies.
Now cavity searches I'd have a problem with, but not a simple pat down.
Well, I'm not American. I also have no idea about my right when it cons to stuff like pat downs. I don't however like the idea of paying for 2 flights just to avoid having another person touch me, especially since I have nothing to hide.
I wasn't thinking weapons, I was more thinking drugs as so e other guy said. I definitely think politics attracts that sales/management type asshole who is into his coke and hookers.
How do you know he wasn't breaking any laws? The fact that he would rather leave and rebook his flight than take a pat down is a bit weird.
That depends - they have to feed their crack habit somehow.
And what does "two orders of magnitude stronger" mean?
Around 100 time stronger.
I think a simpler answer is that blocking "ad farm" type pages will simply improve the relevance of search results - no matter where the ads are coming from.
The happiest scenario would be for MS to buy RIM, and run out of money trying to turn it around :) Then we could be rid of two of the worst UI offenders in one go.
Note that I said that stuff about citizens after reading the self defence part, and before reading the death penalty part. I probably should have rephrased it after that!
What I meant was obviously that the vast majority of people try to do no harm unless it's in self defence. Then I was a bit surprised to read the death penalty thing. Again it comes down to values and whatever they consider to be "criminal", which may involve less-common sexual practices and so forth, the same as Islam. People in western civilisations are punished for certain sexual preferences too, practices which are accepted - or at least not illegal - in other cultures. The age of consent varies from place to place, and sex with animals is legal in some countries. It's all just localised groupthink when you get down to it.
You're using your own values to define what "good" is though. To a deeply religious person, good is whatever their god/book says is good. To a non religious person, good probably involves trying to keep everyone happy.
It sounds like your values actually do align with ahimsa. In fact it sounds to me to be pretty much what western law expects of citizens too. In fact it sounds like they also have stuff in common with Islam:
Hindu scriptures and law books support the use of violence in self-defense against an armed attacker.[34] They make it clear that criminals are not protected by the rule of ahinsa.[35] They have no misgivings about the death penalty; their position is that evil-doers who deserve death should be killed, and that a king in particular is obliged to punish criminals and should not hesitate to kill them, even if they happen to be his own brothers and sons.
What do you expect when you live in a democracy where a large part of the population are Christians? That's not a problem with the law - it's a problem with your culture.
Missed a D - better make that DUM-CRAP*.
I wonder, how much DUM-CRAP could we fit into a single PC?
* this name is by no means a reflection on what I think of the tech - it sounds like a pretty cool idea.
I think UM-CRAP, or RAD-MC-PU would be more catchy.
I don't think it "morally equivalent" as I personally define morals, but I recognise that's only because of the way I've been brought up. If I were brought up in an Islamic nation I'd have a different viewpoint. Thankfully I wasn't - Allah be praised.
I just find the notion of "some values are better than others" strange/amusing, since by definition it is always going to be your own values that are "better than others". Setting a scale which inverts itself depending on your own position is rather circular, so "better" just seems like the wrong word to choose. "More humane" might be a better way of putting it.
My own reason for despising Islam and Christianity would first and foremost be from the blatant lies that they propagate. It doesn't surprise me that training people to suspend their critical functions so as to avoid cognitive dissonance results in a load of messed up behaviours.