No. Different terms are used for different groups. Mac fanboy, Linux hacker, Microsoft apologist, and MySpace luser. Fanboy refers to an almost religious devotion among its members.
The Memory Book describes the techniques for doing this. Basically, you assign numbers to consonants: 1 = t, d 2 = n 3 = m 4 = r 5 = l 6 = sh, ch, j 7 = k 8 = f, v, ph 9 = p, b 0 = s, z
Then, you form words from the numbers, and somehow link the words together. For example: 9185 271 9521 6390 9 1 12 becomes A beautiful naked blond jumps up and down.
or, pi becomes
Ma door towel pin shell mule fob cup, etc
and you imagine a picture of your MA nailed to a DOOR, drying yourself off with a DOOR instead of a TOWEL a TOWEL made entirely of little PINs a sewing machine that has a sea SHELL mounted on it instead of PIN (and is busting the shell up) a bunch of SHELLs hitched to the Borax wagon instead of MULEs A MULE hanging from your watch FOB a giant CUP hanging from your watch FOB and so on.
Of course, it's real work coming up with memorable words and associations. It requires fairly intense concentration, and an active imagination. But even a novice can use this technique to memorize 20-50 digits in a single evening, no problem. The biggest problem is not actually forgetting the digits, it is in reading them wrong in the first place.
Now, obviously, this guy was Japanese, so he probably used something a little different.
.my parents occasionally look at things like history (snicker)
Thank God for edge-flipping (snicker).
Seriously, adults like to confuse inexperience with lack of intelligence, and kids like to confuse knowledge with wisdom. By the age of five, IMHO, you're as 'smart' as you're ever going to get, but the problem is, you think you know everything there is to know. Thus, both sides need to grant the other a certain amount of respect. Parenting should be didactic (yes, I was homeschooled), hopefully giving kids enough info not to make bad decisions.
Oh, yeah, and most kids will/know/ their parents are trying to spy on them, and find a workaround because they can.
Kid 1: Hey! We're separated from the rest of the troop!
Kid 2: So?
Kid 1: We can cuss as much as we want, and nobody will know!
Kid 2: Yeah, who's gonna bust us, the trees?
Kid 1: Fuck, fuck, fuck!
My younger brother actually got involved in a technological cold war like that. First my parents put on a bios password, but it was pretty easy to reset it with a jumper. Then, they tried locking up the power cables. But, sadly, it is also easy to cut through a plastic toolbox. Then, they mounted a lock on the room, but he just busted the door down. Finally, they bought a big, lockable, steel computer cabinet from TigerDirect. In retaliation, my brother learned how to pick locks. I think my dad is planning to mount a real lock on the cabinet, but I don't have high expectations.
Well, most people don't use all of their single core cycles either. How many people do you know who use their "extreme gaming rigs" mostly for web surfing? Eh?
Nah, with the added horsepower, applications will grow to fit the hardware. A few people will actually need and use those extra cores, probably for things like data crunching, image/sound processing, and AI.
Amen, brother. A lot of people try to use linux as a means to promote OSS, when what they should be doing is promoting cross-platform OSS apps. Then, the transition is much easier. "So you like firefox and OOo on windows? Linux runs them too, and it's FREE"
Some people don't like the idea of cross-platform apps, thinking that it will just help out windows. This is just crap. Even if linux apps were superior to their windows counterparts, there is such a small userbase for linux that nobody would ever know about those wonderful programs.
Hell, even with the classic linux games like bzflag and wesnoth, way more people run it on windows than linux. Without a windows port, there would be nobody to play with, and the game might as well not exist.
Online classes come in all shapes and sizes. If the instructor is well organised, they can be pretty good. If the instructor is "moving things over to a new website", and insists on giving "virtual lectures" in realtime over a crappy Java web interface, it can be pretty damn painful. Also, when you do get pissed^W confused, there's no way to throttle^W meet with the guy in person.
Math is the only subject that, as far as I know, can be left alone and taught without controversy.
Unless you're one of those greek nutters who thought rational numbers were sacred. Or one of those Christian nutters who thought that calculus was the work of the devil.
NO, NO, NO! Nautilus is nothing more than a Konqueror wannabe. Konqueror is the reason I switched to KDE.
Konqueror can display a "detailed list" file view without wasting screen space
Konqueror can scroll without visible ripping
Konqueror has a *working* "computer"; it's called "system"
Konqueror has *working* drag-and-drop; no need to hold down the middle button for copy
Konqueror has fully integrated bookmarks, much like "favorites" in IE
Konqueror has a *real* location bar; no need to hit Ctrl-L
Konqueror can do split-screen file management, MC style
Konqueror has tabs
Konqueror also has truly wonderful integration:
Konqueror is a web browser
Konqueror integrates with CVS
Konqueror integrates with diff
Konqueror seamlessly browses through tarballs
Konqueror can view man pages
Konqueror works pretty good as an image viewer
Konqueror integrates with MPlayer
Konqueror integrates with KPDF
There is probably more that I don't know about
In case you don't understand the significance of this, this means that you can have a folder open in one tab, a web page in another, a PDF in a third, and a tarball in a separate frame. This does wonders for the old workflow, doncha know. Yeah, go on, bitch about bloat. I think seamless integration is *goddam useful* myself, and frankly more intuitive than using external utilities. To abuse an old saying, "Joe User doesn't care about files and folders and archives and PDF viewers and FTP and CVS. He just wants to get his work done." Konqueror is a sort of "glue app", putting a consistent interface on a bunch of KParts. The guiding philosophy is not "just add more", the guiding philosophy is polymorphism.
Konqueror is a browser, and it will "browse" whatever you want. Sort of like how vim will "edit" whatever text you want, or how UNIX can do IO on whatever "files" you want. If the thought of "learning to use a program" is too painful for you, suffer it out with nautilus. If *deliberately crippled* software appeals to you, that's not my problem. But don't claim that Nautilus is a file manager. Nautilus *looks* like a file manager. Konqueror *is* a file manager.
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And if you need to call home to tell your parents you are going over to George's after school - there's this really cool thing, kind of like WiFi, where companies create these hot-spots for telephony, and they even PROVIDE THE EQUIPMENT FOR YOU! You walk up to this phone, and you can make a call! What will they think of next?
Sure you can make calls with a payphone. They aren't all that hard to find, now that cell phones have become popular. Payphones are cheap, too; calls only cost 50 cents each. And if you're really lucky, the coin slot might not be full of gum.
Suppose you actually can make your call. Odds are, you'll either reach a machine, or get a busy signal (someone is hogging the line with a modem). So, you have to wait about 15 minutes, and then feed another 50 cents into the phone. Wash, rinse, and repeat until you either get through or run out of quarters.
He speaks truth. It's kind of a shame that Ubuntu ships with the less-than functional GStreamer and Totem. Mplayer works a hell of a lot better and plays all the 'proprietary' codecs like wma, too. If they wanted, they could distribute Ubuntu with Real's Helix player, flash, and java. Instead, they cram it in multiverse and then make sure that multiverse isn't enabled by default.
Many kids are growing up right now with no sense of trust, no confidence, no belief in themselves, and no feeling of responsibility or ownership over their own actions, whatsoever. And is it any wonder why? No trust has ever been instilled in them. The crux of the problem, as I see it, is that too many parents are too pussy to trust their kids to the world, too pussy to punish them when they fuck up, and too pussy to admit that they're being bad parents. Hey, parents: it's OK to be a hardass once in awhile, and by God it's OK to give your kids some breathing room; my peers and I turned out just fine.
Heh. I remember going on a canoe trip at camp a while ago. After floating down the river for a couple of hours, the canoes got spread out, so that they were out of sight of each other. And then this kid gets an idea: "Hey! Were all alone in the middle of a river! We can cuss as much as we want!"
Duh! Haven't you ever been alone before, kid? Ever?
I'm sorry, wanting to kill your english teacher IS absolutely harmless, normal behavior. Who DOESN'T have a special someone in their life who likes to give them hell? Making an animation about it is just plain dumb, though. And the school was within their rights to kick the kid out; they can kick out whoever they want. However, that doesn't mean that the whole affair wasn't a big round of administrative chest-thumping.
I'm not sure this is an advantage. Unless the driver was signed and "blessed" by Microsoft, it's quite often a very low-quality driver, and worse still- you're lucky if you receive any support on it.
Sometimes, any driver is better than no driver at all.
3. Some applications, when installed, seem to be "everywhere"... they aren't just single little entities.
Package management is a general problem, not related to any one OS. Oh, sure, you can try keeping everything in its own folder, but then you end up putting the shared libraries in with the executables, and shipping a program with all its dependencies. Also, many programs like to add GUI hooks for the sake of integration. A more practical approach is to use a dedicated package manager to handle installation, uninstallation, and dependency tracking in an organized fashion.
Windows and OSX don't have package management yet, but they should. Antivirus programs, antispyware programs, Adobe Reader, Quicktime, Azureus, Eclipse -- these programs all have their own update managers. And, they all try to check for updates BEHIND MY BACK every time I go online, hfreezing up my dialup connection.
If Microsoft wanted, they could implement a debian-like package manager that would let you seamlessly buy and install stuff online. But they haven't, and they probably won't. [/rant]
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No. Different terms are used for different groups. Mac fanboy, Linux hacker, Microsoft apologist, and MySpace luser. Fanboy refers to an almost religious devotion among its members.
The Memory Book describes the techniques for doing this. Basically, you assign numbers to consonants:
1 = t, d
2 = n
3 = m
4 = r
5 = l
6 = sh, ch, j
7 = k
8 = f, v, ph
9 = p, b
0 = s, z
Then, you form words from the numbers, and somehow link the words together. For example:
9185 271 9521 6390 9 1 12 becomes
A beautiful naked blond jumps up and down.
or, pi becomes
Ma door towel pin shell mule fob cup, etc
and you imagine a picture of your
MA nailed to a DOOR,
drying yourself off with a DOOR instead of a TOWEL
a TOWEL made entirely of little PINs
a sewing machine that has a sea SHELL mounted on it instead of PIN (and is busting the shell up)
a bunch of SHELLs hitched to the Borax wagon instead of MULEs
A MULE hanging from your watch FOB
a giant CUP hanging from your watch FOB
and so on.
Of course, it's real work coming up with memorable words and associations. It requires fairly intense concentration, and an active imagination. But even a novice can use this technique to memorize 20-50 digits in a single evening, no problem. The biggest problem is not actually forgetting the digits, it is in reading them wrong in the first place.
Now, obviously, this guy was Japanese, so he probably used something a little different.
Seriously, adults like to confuse inexperience with lack of intelligence, and kids like to confuse knowledge with wisdom. By the age of five, IMHO, you're as 'smart' as you're ever going to get, but the problem is, you think you know everything there is to know. Thus, both sides need to grant the other a certain amount of respect. Parenting should be didactic (yes, I was homeschooled), hopefully giving kids enough info not to make bad decisions.
Oh, yeah, and most kids will /know/ their parents are trying to spy on them, and find a workaround because they can.
Kid 1: Hey! We're separated from the rest of the troop!
Kid 2: So?
Kid 1: We can cuss as much as we want, and nobody will know!
Kid 2: Yeah, who's gonna bust us, the trees?
Kid 1: Fuck, fuck, fuck!
My younger brother actually got involved in a technological cold war like that. First my parents put on a bios password, but it was pretty easy to reset it with a jumper. Then, they tried locking up the power cables. But, sadly, it is also easy to cut through a plastic toolbox. Then, they mounted a lock on the room, but he just busted the door down. Finally, they bought a big, lockable, steel computer cabinet from TigerDirect. In retaliation, my brother learned how to pick locks. I think my dad is planning to mount a real lock on the cabinet, but I don't have high expectations.
Well, most people don't use all of their single core cycles either. How many people do you know who use their "extreme gaming rigs" mostly for web surfing? Eh?
Nah, with the added horsepower, applications will grow to fit the hardware. A few people will actually need and use those extra cores, probably for things like data crunching, image/sound processing, and AI.
Amen, brother. A lot of people try to use linux as a means to promote OSS, when what they should be doing is promoting cross-platform OSS apps. Then, the transition is much easier. "So you like firefox and OOo on windows? Linux runs them too, and it's FREE" Some people don't like the idea of cross-platform apps, thinking that it will just help out windows. This is just crap. Even if linux apps were superior to their windows counterparts, there is such a small userbase for linux that nobody would ever know about those wonderful programs. Hell, even with the classic linux games like bzflag and wesnoth, way more people run it on windows than linux. Without a windows port, there would be nobody to play with, and the game might as well not exist.
Online classes come in all shapes and sizes. If the instructor is well organised, they can be pretty good. If the instructor is "moving things over to a new website", and insists on giving "virtual lectures" in realtime over a crappy Java web interface, it can be pretty damn painful. Also, when you do get pissed^W confused, there's no way to throttle^W meet with the guy in person.
Unless you're one of those greek nutters who thought rational numbers were sacred. Or one of those Christian nutters who thought that calculus was the work of the devil.
I am a homeschooled religious looney, you insensitive clod!
J/K
Urgh. I'd hate to see what Jack Thompson would say to that. Or, no, wait... maybe make Jack Thompson the boss.
That's a LOT of pr0n.
- Konqueror can display a "detailed list" file view without wasting screen space
- Konqueror can scroll without visible ripping
- Konqueror has a *working* "computer"; it's called "system"
- Konqueror has *working* drag-and-drop; no need to hold down the middle button for copy
- Konqueror has fully integrated bookmarks, much like "favorites" in IE
- Konqueror has a *real* location bar; no need to hit Ctrl-L
- Konqueror can do split-screen file management, MC style
- Konqueror has tabs
Konqueror also has truly wonderful integration:In case you don't understand the significance of this, this means that you can have a folder open in one tab, a web page in another, a PDF in a third, and a tarball in a separate frame. This does wonders for the old workflow, doncha know. Yeah, go on, bitch about bloat. I think seamless integration is *goddam useful* myself, and frankly more intuitive than using external utilities. To abuse an old saying, "Joe User doesn't care about files and folders and archives and PDF viewers and FTP and CVS. He just wants to get his work done." Konqueror is a sort of "glue app", putting a consistent interface on a bunch of KParts. The guiding philosophy is not "just add more", the guiding philosophy is polymorphism.
Konqueror is a browser, and it will "browse" whatever you want. Sort of like how vim will "edit" whatever text you want, or how UNIX can do IO on whatever "files" you want. If the thought of "learning to use a program" is too painful for you, suffer it out with nautilus. If *deliberately crippled* software appeals to you, that's not my problem. But don't claim that Nautilus is a file manager. Nautilus *looks* like a file manager. Konqueror *is* a file manager.
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Well, WINE implemaents most of DirectX 9, so DirectX 10 on linux isn't all that farfetched, really.
Gnome is marginally easier on the eyeballs, but the power of Konqueror more than makes up for this, IMHO.
So, Suse *will* run home grown apps without major tweaking? Is that what you are suggesting?
The key difference is that you can quit your job. You are required by law to go to school.
Sure you can make calls with a payphone. They aren't all that hard to find, now that cell phones have become popular. Payphones are cheap, too; calls only cost 50 cents each. And if you're really lucky, the coin slot might not be full of gum.
Suppose you actually can make your call. Odds are, you'll either reach a machine, or get a busy signal (someone is hogging the line with a modem). So, you have to wait about 15 minutes, and then feed another 50 cents into the phone. Wash, rinse, and repeat until you either get through or run out of quarters.
I *heart* payphones.</sarcasm>
He speaks truth. It's kind of a shame that Ubuntu ships with the less-than functional GStreamer and Totem. Mplayer works a hell of a lot better and plays all the 'proprietary' codecs like wma, too. If they wanted, they could distribute Ubuntu with Real's Helix player, flash, and java. Instead, they cram it in multiverse and then make sure that multiverse isn't enabled by default.
BTW, you don't actually have to subscribe. You can get Cedega from cvs for free (as in beer).
Heh. I remember going on a canoe trip at camp a while ago. After floating down the river for a couple of hours, the canoes got spread out, so that they were out of sight of each other. And then this kid gets an idea: "Hey! Were all alone in the middle of a river! We can cuss as much as we want!"
Duh! Haven't you ever been alone before, kid? Ever?
That one still cracks me up.
I'm sorry, wanting to kill your english teacher IS absolutely harmless, normal behavior. Who DOESN'T have a special someone in their life who likes to give them hell? Making an animation about it is just plain dumb, though. And the school was within their rights to kick the kid out; they can kick out whoever they want. However, that doesn't mean that the whole affair wasn't a big round of administrative chest-thumping.
Sometimes, any driver is better than no driver at all.
3. Some applications, when installed, seem to be "everywhere"... they aren't just single little entities.
Package management is a general problem, not related to any one OS. Oh, sure, you can try keeping everything in its own folder, but then you end up putting the shared libraries in with the executables, and shipping a program with all its dependencies. Also, many programs like to add GUI hooks for the sake of integration. A more practical approach is to use a dedicated package manager to handle installation, uninstallation, and dependency tracking in an organized fashion.
Windows and OSX don't have package management yet, but they should. Antivirus programs, antispyware programs, Adobe Reader, Quicktime, Azureus, Eclipse -- these programs all have their own update managers. And, they all try to check for updates BEHIND MY BACK every time I go online, hfreezing up my dialup connection.
If Microsoft wanted, they could implement a debian-like package manager that would let you seamlessly buy and install stuff online. But they haven't, and they probably won't. [/rant]
I bet Scientist/Supermodel Symmetra could do it. http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volum e2/v2i3/v2i3-toc.html