Females have the exact-same problems with their pussy as males.
Bullshit. Does your penis bleed monthly? Do you get yeast infections? Toxic shock from sticking a tampon in your penis? No, you don't. A penis is nothing like a vagina (in case you've never seen a vagina).
Oh and let's not forget breasts. 5% of women will develop breast cancer..... that's a much higher rate than the 0.01% of men that develop penal cancer. So let's cure that problem that same way we lop off penis tips. That's right. Lop off the breast buds for female infants, so they never need fear getting breast cancer.
That's so insanely inaccurate I suspect you're going for "+1 funny". removing a niple will not prevent breast cancer, but it will prevent her from breast feeding, the lack of which causes health problems for the infant. And circumcision doesn't prevent penile cancer, it prevents bacterial, viral, and fungal infections. I knew a guy in the USAF who had a fungal infection in is foreskin and I sure was glad I had been circumcised, and he wished he'd been circumcised as an infant. The poor guy went through hell. If I'd had a boy rather than two girls, you can bet your ass he'd be circumcised, considering what I'd seen.
Yes (even if you did use the NIV version), but Paul wasn't saying "circumcised men go to hell". What he was saying was, and I quote (5:6) "For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love."
At the time, Jews were circumsized and Gentiles were not. Having to be circumcised was part of the old Jewish religion. Paul was saying to the Gentile converts to Christianity "no, you don't have to be circumcised, you only have to repent and believe in Jesus."
Paul wasn't saying circumcision was a sin, he was saying that if you think you need to be corcumcised to go to heaven then you also have to follow all the other Jewish laws as well.
A Christian being circumsized for religious reasons is a fool. A Christian (or anyone else) being circumsized for health reasons is wise.
Actually, I'd like to see the study that says woman are happier than men, because that flies in the face of my experience. Most of the women I know are either depressed or angry all the time.
To be fair, it is one of the more creative trolls I've seen
You need to learn the difference between a troll and a joke, Sheldon. He was parodying Subway commercials, health nuts, and slashdotters. It was funny and well done. He deserves the +5 he already has.
First, unless I'm mistaken, female "circumsicion" is an African practice, not an Arabian one. Secondly, it is not the same at all. Female "circumsicion" is not circumcision at all, it's removal of the clitoris. Males do not have a clitoris, females do not have a foreskin, and they do not serve the same purpose. The foreskin's only use is to protect the head of the penis, and its necessity was negated hundreds of thusands of years ago when we started wearing clothing.
The foreskin has no more purpose than an appendix, and having it there is just as dangerous and useless. OTOH, the clitoris does in fact have a useful purpose and its being there is not hazardous and its removal is indeed mutilation.
Would it fucking kill you to define a largely unfamiliar term in the goddamned article summary?
Have you read the masthead? "News for nerds." You're supposed to be educated and literate. The educated and literate know what to do when faced with an unfamiliar word (and they linked a very good definition for noncompos muggles like you).
On topic, I think the question posed ("Are skeuomorphic designs making technology accessible to the masses, or is it simply a case of an unwillingness to innovate and move forward?") is a dumb question. The skeuomorphic designs make innovation available to those who know the old tech. It would be harder to innovate without skeuomorphic designs.
Ketchup is only a vegetable if you believe in trickle-down fairy dust. Remember, the man who said ketchup was a vegetable had alzheimer's and said cutting taxes on the rich helped the economy. Bush Jr disproved that one when he slashed the rich's taxes and crashed the economy.
Plus, there is no such thing as a vegetable if you ask a biologist. A vegetable is simply any part of any plant that's not a root or fruit; it's not a biology term.
Ask a dictionary or encyclopedia, not a Republican. Remember Dan Quayle's spelling of "potato"?
Twenty years or so ago there were two large barking German Shepherds that would keep me up all night. The first thing I'd do when I got off work the next day was fire up Wolfenstein, just to shoot the god damned dogs.
For the average user, not the technical wizz-kid: the average user, Linux was never an option. Id didn't come on their store-bought PC.
So far so good. If didn't "just work" (ever!) and it didn't support most of the peripherals or USB devices that they had or wanted.
Fail. Linux does "just work" and it supports every perepheral and USB device I've plugged into it. Take my Bluetooth USB dongle: drivers and install program for Windows and Mac, but nothing for Linux. Surprise, plug it in and it works. No programs to install, no drivers to install, no reboots, just plug it in and shoot pics to it from your camera or phone. Windows? Install program, reboot, install drivers, reboot, fiddle with it... and it sorta kinda works.
Blaming Linux's failure to penetrate the average household on anything but it's own lack of marketing
Indeed, that's the kicker. Most non-nerds haven't ever even heard of it.
polish
If you mean "pretty" you have a point. If you mean "well written and well behaved" you're wrong. For example, hardware fault-tolerance. Linux will work on flaky hardware when Windows won't even boot. And it seems that there are bug fix notifications almost every day on my W7 box, seldom on my Linux box.
self-discipline
I have no idea what you're discussing here. Whose self-discipline?
ease of use
Wrong again. Linux is far easier to use (unless you're using the wrong distro for the job, don't expect to play MP3s from a server distro). In Windows, almost every update, bug fix, driver fix, and every single software install requires at least one reboot and often more. Linux? No boots needed unless you're replacing the kernel or hardware. Shut your two computers down for the night, the next morning your turn them both on. In the Windows box, you have to log on (unless you stupidly left it without a password), then open each and every program and document you had open when you shut it down. Meanwhile, all you had to do with the Linux box is press the on button, it's sitting there like it was when you shut it off.
Installing a new program? In Linux, open package manager, enter sudo password, find app, click, done. Windows? Search for it on the web, download, double click the install exe, click "yes" to half a dozen UACs, then reboot... and probably reboot again, which of course means opening all your apps and documents all over again. How in the hell is that more user-friendly?
How is Windows more useable in any way whatever? Remember, I've been using Windows for over fifteen years and Linux for ten; I know the strengths and weaknesses of both. No way is Windows even close to Linux in useability. What Windows takes ten clicks for, Linux usually takes two.
support
True, the Geek Squad doesn't work on Linux computers. But a Linux computer, not having much of a malware threat, and lacking that god damned registry, seldom needs any support at all. It just works.
brand (i.e. not having a million different distros: all the same, but different)
That's only detrimental to someone too stupid to eat at any reataraunt but fast food, because OMFG THAEAR IS TOO MANY CHOICES!!!! You would rather Ford only carried Fusions, because having to choose between an F110 or an F150 or any one of the many sedans, or any of the many SUVs is just too much for your tiny little mind? This is the stupidest argument you Windows apologists use, and it's embarrasing on a supposed nerd site.
or integration
I prefer interoperability and industry standards to vendor lock-in. Again, that's a stupid argument.
If your comment teaches us anything, it's that Wndows is only for the learning impaired.
Now go tell Steve to throw another chair, I'm sure his office is only a few floors from yours.
Last I installed Linux on a desktop, I spent several hours configuring it and installing a deluge of cherry-picked packages, each with its own deluge of dependencies -- which were occasionally installed two or three times with different versions in the end. Adding insult to injury, I had to babysit the box during the whole process due to occasional prompts. It left me with the impression that only the most masochist end-users would ever endure the pain to its end, and that Linux distros, installs and package management were an incomprehensible mess for the non-expert.
Christ, what fucked up distro were you installing??? And how long ago? That sounds more like a Windows XP install; now THAT was a PITA. Not hard, but frustrating and boring. I never had those problems in Mandriva or kubuntu. Both distros boot, ask you the questions, and it needs no further babysitting (older Mandriva distros had you change CDs since the apps and OS are installed at the same time). And everything works when you're done. There used to be driver issues, but I haven't seen them for over five years.
After the king james version some one translated "Bring them out so we may know them" to "have sex with them". Yikes.
Indeed, that's the problem with the NIV. There's a place in Acts describing how they all shared possessions, the KJV says "thay had everything common." NIV says "everything IN common" which is not what the original Greek says.
Eziekiel tells us exactly why got sent the destroying angels: the prideful 1%s didn't realize they didn't build their own wealth, society had, and they were not giving back.
Indeed, you find the evil of greed all through the bible. It says "the love of money is the root of all evil". Yet so many 1%ers actually think they're going to heaven. Perhaps they will, if they can get their camel full of possessions through the very small gate they called the "eye of the needle".
I can never figure out how someone can consider himself both a conservative and a Christian. Jesus was a liberal, Caiphas (the one who condemned him to death by torture... er, which political group is for the death penalty?) was a conservative. So conservative that they crucified Christ for his progressive ideas.
Thank you. Hopefully, MS is writing less buggy code these days (2004 was a long time ago). It takes a really bad OS and browser to be infected by something like this.
Are you an asshole when you delete a program you wrote? Are you an asshole when you destroy a machine you have built? Are you an asshole if you throw your self-portrait in the fireplace?
If urinary tract infections were the only danger I would agree with you. However, it also lessens the risk of Aids and Hepatitis B and C, as well as other STDs. And if you visit the tropics, jungle rot. I knew a guy who had jungle rot onhis foreskin, and I have to say I'm damned glad I was circumsized after seeing how much pain he went through.
He was lucky he was in the military, it would be thousands of dollars out of his pocket had he been a civilian. Also, do you have any idea what the drugs an HIV patient has to take for the rest of their lives (not to mention the frequent doctor visits) cost?
Your numbers are meaningless when you leave out all the biggest numbers and focus on the very least cost.
Evolution put foreskins on the human male for a reason.
Intelligent design? That's what it sounds like you're talking about. But tell me, what evolutionary advantage does an appendix confer? All it does is get infected and kill you. Yet we still have them.
An evolutionary handicap will stay around if it kills only a few of the total population, and especially if only after the organism has reproduced -- which in the case of a foreskin, the problems only occur after sex, especially after a LOT of sex with a lot of women.
I don't give a damn about statistics... or studies...
You sound like an evangelical.
If a child then then grows up to be an adult and decides it wants to go to a surgeon and have its genitals circumcised for cultural, religions, psychological or legitimate medical reasons such a decision is that persons own business.
Circumcision on an infant is painless and heals in a coulple of days. On an adult it's expensive, incredibly painful, and takes over a month to heal. I knew a guy who had to have his foreskin amputated a an adult, and believe me, you would NOT want it done as an adult.
The foreskin, like the appendix, has no biological purpose.
My copy of W95 cand on a CD, and I still have it and my DOS 6.2 floppies. All three of them. And the half inch thick book that came with them... too bad they stopped giving printed documentation and instad have those unhelpful help files.
When considering the use of an apostrophe, possession involves of and for. Consider a notice outside a golf club: CaptainÃ(TM)s parking space. The captain doesnÃ(TM)t own the space; it is a parking space for the captain.
I don't own my assigned parking space at work, but it's still mine. I don't own my house, but it's still my house. It's still a possessive; legal ownership doesn't enter into it.
In the case of this carÃ(TM)s colour is too bright the car doesnÃ(TM)t own the colour; it is the colour of the car.
But again, the car possesses the color. You don't have to own something to posess it. If I loan you a book, it's not your book but you are in posession of the book. If you get arrested for a DUI tha cops will tale posession of your car, but it's still your car even though it's in their posession.
Using these guidelines I don't feel so bad about my usage. I believe that American English and British English have a few differences in usage. What may be correct in one, may not be in the other.
The British and Americans use apostrophes in exactly the same way. The only people who say "all the car's are red" are ignorant aliterates who obviously read nothing but internet postings by other aliterates. This is third grade elementary school stuff. Misuse of apostrophes indicates that the writer is incredibly unlearned and it is very, very doubtful that (s)he has ever been to college and most likely dropped out of high school. I can't stress enough how ignorant it makes you look..
That's a compliment. Of course, even the mainstream news sites are saying this is "like Tatooine". Of course it isn't Tatooine itself, since Tatooine is long ago in a galaxy far, far away. This is in our own galaxy only 5000 light years away; the Mayans and Egyptians were still building pyramids when the light we're measuring left those stars.
What's exciting about this isn't that it's like Tatooine (or a lot of other science fiction star systems) but that it exists at all. It was formerly thought impossible for a binary star system to have planets. TFA I read earlier this morning said one of them was the size of Neptune and in the goldilocks zone, and wondered if the Neptune-sized planet had moons, and how strange it would be to be standing on one of those moons.
It seems likely that the outer, Neptune sized planet would have moons, since all the gas giants in our system do. Imagine, two suns, a HUGE GIANT moon (the planet) taking half the sky, and other moons visible as well.
Too bad it's impossible to get 5k light years away, I'd love to see the place.
The Apple ][ never had an 8 inch disk, they were 5 inch disks. AFAIK no PC used an 8 inch disk (please correct me if I'm wrong), although we had some 8 inchers still around 25 years ago in my office. They were used in what was once called "minicomputers".
The image you linked was a Radio Shack five inch disk. The "cover" the GP referred to was the flap on the drive; the dust bunnies will be inside the drive.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. I'd be all for this guy going to jail if someone from Sony would have gone to jail for XCP, which vandalized thousands of their paying customers' computers. As it is, I say payback is a motherfucker and Sony got what was coming to them when this guy brok in to their systems. Actually, they deserve more. They deserve to be run out of business completely.
Yes, I was a victim of Sony's hacking. Put Sony's president in prison and I'll be all for putting this guy in prison.
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Oh, for fuck's sake!
Females have the exact-same problems with their pussy as males.
Bullshit. Does your penis bleed monthly? Do you get yeast infections? Toxic shock from sticking a tampon in your penis? No, you don't. A penis is nothing like a vagina (in case you've never seen a vagina).
Oh and let's not forget breasts. 5% of women will develop breast cancer..... that's a much higher rate than the 0.01% of men that develop penal cancer. So let's cure that problem that same way we lop off penis tips. That's right. Lop off the breast buds for female infants, so they never need fear getting breast cancer.
That's so insanely inaccurate I suspect you're going for "+1 funny". removing a niple will not prevent breast cancer, but it will prevent her from breast feeding, the lack of which causes health problems for the infant. And circumcision doesn't prevent penile cancer, it prevents bacterial, viral, and fungal infections. I knew a guy in the USAF who had a fungal infection in is foreskin and I sure was glad I had been circumcised, and he wished he'd been circumcised as an infant. The poor guy went through hell. If I'd had a boy rather than two girls, you can bet your ass he'd be circumcised, considering what I'd seen.
Do people not know that personal computers used audio cassettes to store data any more?
Young people don't know.
Your comment reminded me of an old joke:
What's the difference between a wife and a job?
After five years the job still sucks.
Yes (even if you did use the NIV version), but Paul wasn't saying "circumcised men go to hell". What he was saying was, and I quote (5:6) "For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love."
At the time, Jews were circumsized and Gentiles were not. Having to be circumcised was part of the old Jewish religion. Paul was saying to the Gentile converts to Christianity "no, you don't have to be circumcised, you only have to repent and believe in Jesus."
Paul wasn't saying circumcision was a sin, he was saying that if you think you need to be corcumcised to go to heaven then you also have to follow all the other Jewish laws as well.
A Christian being circumsized for religious reasons is a fool. A Christian (or anyone else) being circumsized for health reasons is wise.
Actually, I'd like to see the study that says woman are happier than men, because that flies in the face of my experience. Most of the women I know are either depressed or angry all the time.
The unhappy men I know are all married.
To be fair, it is one of the more creative trolls I've seen
You need to learn the difference between a troll and a joke, Sheldon. He was parodying Subway commercials, health nuts, and slashdotters. It was funny and well done. He deserves the +5 he already has.
BadAnalogyGuy's karma got so bad he could only post once a day.
V = I R
Yes he did.
Which happens anyway. I doubt you have any of your cells you had when you were a child.
First, unless I'm mistaken, female "circumsicion" is an African practice, not an Arabian one. Secondly, it is not the same at all. Female "circumsicion" is not circumcision at all, it's removal of the clitoris. Males do not have a clitoris, females do not have a foreskin, and they do not serve the same purpose. The foreskin's only use is to protect the head of the penis, and its necessity was negated hundreds of thusands of years ago when we started wearing clothing.
The foreskin has no more purpose than an appendix, and having it there is just as dangerous and useless. OTOH, the clitoris does in fact have a useful purpose and its being there is not hazardous and its removal is indeed mutilation.
Would it fucking kill you to define a largely unfamiliar term in the goddamned article summary?
Have you read the masthead? "News for nerds." You're supposed to be educated and literate. The educated and literate know what to do when faced with an unfamiliar word (and they linked a very good definition for noncompos muggles like you).
On topic, I think the question posed ("Are skeuomorphic designs making technology accessible to the masses, or is it simply a case of an unwillingness to innovate and move forward?") is a dumb question. The skeuomorphic designs make innovation available to those who know the old tech. It would be harder to innovate without skeuomorphic designs.
Ketchup is only a vegetable if you believe in trickle-down fairy dust. Remember, the man who said ketchup was a vegetable had alzheimer's and said cutting taxes on the rich helped the economy. Bush Jr disproved that one when he slashed the rich's taxes and crashed the economy.
Plus, there is no such thing as a vegetable if you ask a biologist. A vegetable is simply any part of any plant that's not a root or fruit; it's not a biology term.
Ask a dictionary or encyclopedia, not a Republican. Remember Dan Quayle's spelling of "potato"?
Twenty years or so ago there were two large barking German Shepherds that would keep me up all night. The first thing I'd do when I got off work the next day was fire up Wolfenstein, just to shoot the god damned dogs.
It felt good!
For the average user, not the technical wizz-kid: the average user, Linux was never an option. Id didn't come on their store-bought PC.
So far so good.
If didn't "just work" (ever!) and it didn't support most of the peripherals or USB devices that they had or wanted.
Fail. Linux does "just work" and it supports every perepheral and USB device I've plugged into it. Take my Bluetooth USB dongle: drivers and install program for Windows and Mac, but nothing for Linux. Surprise, plug it in and it works. No programs to install, no drivers to install, no reboots, just plug it in and shoot pics to it from your camera or phone. Windows? Install program, reboot, install drivers, reboot, fiddle with it... and it sorta kinda works.
Blaming Linux's failure to penetrate the average household on anything but it's own lack of marketing
Indeed, that's the kicker. Most non-nerds haven't ever even heard of it.
polish
If you mean "pretty" you have a point. If you mean "well written and well behaved" you're wrong. For example, hardware fault-tolerance. Linux will work on flaky hardware when Windows won't even boot. And it seems that there are bug fix notifications almost every day on my W7 box, seldom on my Linux box.
self-discipline
I have no idea what you're discussing here. Whose self-discipline?
ease of use
Wrong again. Linux is far easier to use (unless you're using the wrong distro for the job, don't expect to play MP3s from a server distro). In Windows, almost every update, bug fix, driver fix, and every single software install requires at least one reboot and often more. Linux? No boots needed unless you're replacing the kernel or hardware. Shut your two computers down for the night, the next morning your turn them both on. In the Windows box, you have to log on (unless you stupidly left it without a password), then open each and every program and document you had open when you shut it down. Meanwhile, all you had to do with the Linux box is press the on button, it's sitting there like it was when you shut it off.
Installing a new program? In Linux, open package manager, enter sudo password, find app, click, done. Windows? Search for it on the web, download, double click the install exe, click "yes" to half a dozen UACs, then reboot... and probably reboot again, which of course means opening all your apps and documents all over again. How in the hell is that more user-friendly?
How is Windows more useable in any way whatever? Remember, I've been using Windows for over fifteen years and Linux for ten; I know the strengths and weaknesses of both. No way is Windows even close to Linux in useability. What Windows takes ten clicks for, Linux usually takes two.
support
True, the Geek Squad doesn't work on Linux computers. But a Linux computer, not having much of a malware threat, and lacking that god damned registry, seldom needs any support at all. It just works.
brand (i.e. not having a million different distros: all the same, but different)
That's only detrimental to someone too stupid to eat at any reataraunt but fast food, because OMFG THAEAR IS TOO MANY CHOICES!!!! You would rather Ford only carried Fusions, because having to choose between an F110 or an F150 or any one of the many sedans, or any of the many SUVs is just too much for your tiny little mind? This is the stupidest argument you Windows apologists use, and it's embarrasing on a supposed nerd site.
or integration
I prefer interoperability and industry standards to vendor lock-in. Again, that's a stupid argument.
If your comment teaches us anything, it's that Wndows is only for the learning impaired.
Now go tell Steve to throw another chair, I'm sure his office is only a few floors from yours.
Sheesh.
Last I installed Linux on a desktop, I spent several hours configuring it and installing a deluge of cherry-picked packages, each with its own deluge of dependencies -- which were occasionally installed two or three times with different versions in the end. Adding insult to injury, I had to babysit the box during the whole process due to occasional prompts. It left me with the impression that only the most masochist end-users would ever endure the pain to its end, and that Linux distros, installs and package management were an incomprehensible mess for the non-expert.
Christ, what fucked up distro were you installing??? And how long ago? That sounds more like a Windows XP install; now THAT was a PITA. Not hard, but frustrating and boring. I never had those problems in Mandriva or kubuntu. Both distros boot, ask you the questions, and it needs no further babysitting (older Mandriva distros had you change CDs since the apps and OS are installed at the same time). And everything works when you're done. There used to be driver issues, but I haven't seen them for over five years.
After the king james version some one translated "Bring them out so we may know them" to "have sex with them". Yikes.
Indeed, that's the problem with the NIV. There's a place in Acts describing how they all shared possessions, the KJV says "thay had everything common." NIV says "everything IN common" which is not what the original Greek says.
Eziekiel tells us exactly why got sent the destroying angels: the prideful 1%s didn't realize they didn't build their own wealth, society had, and they were not giving back.
Indeed, you find the evil of greed all through the bible. It says "the love of money is the root of all evil". Yet so many 1%ers actually think they're going to heaven. Perhaps they will, if they can get their camel full of possessions through the very small gate they called the "eye of the needle".
I can never figure out how someone can consider himself both a conservative and a Christian. Jesus was a liberal, Caiphas (the one who condemned him to death by torture... er, which political group is for the death penalty?) was a conservative. So conservative that they crucified Christ for his progressive ideas.
Thank you. Hopefully, MS is writing less buggy code these days (2004 was a long time ago). It takes a really bad OS and browser to be infected by something like this.
Are you an asshole when you delete a program you wrote? Are you an asshole when you destroy a machine you have built? Are you an asshole if you throw your self-portrait in the fireplace?
If urinary tract infections were the only danger I would agree with you. However, it also lessens the risk of Aids and Hepatitis B and C, as well as other STDs. And if you visit the tropics, jungle rot. I knew a guy who had jungle rot onhis foreskin, and I have to say I'm damned glad I was circumsized after seeing how much pain he went through.
He was lucky he was in the military, it would be thousands of dollars out of his pocket had he been a civilian. Also, do you have any idea what the drugs an HIV patient has to take for the rest of their lives (not to mention the frequent doctor visits) cost?
Your numbers are meaningless when you leave out all the biggest numbers and focus on the very least cost.
Evolution put foreskins on the human male for a reason.
Intelligent design? That's what it sounds like you're talking about. But tell me, what evolutionary advantage does an appendix confer? All it does is get infected and kill you. Yet we still have them.
An evolutionary handicap will stay around if it kills only a few of the total population, and especially if only after the organism has reproduced -- which in the case of a foreskin, the problems only occur after sex, especially after a LOT of sex with a lot of women.
I don't give a damn about statistics... or studies...
You sound like an evangelical.
If a child then then grows up to be an adult and decides it wants to go to a surgeon and have its genitals circumcised for cultural, religions, psychological or legitimate medical reasons such a decision is that persons own business.
Circumcision on an infant is painless and heals in a coulple of days. On an adult it's expensive, incredibly painful, and takes over a month to heal. I knew a guy who had to have his foreskin amputated a an adult, and believe me, you would NOT want it done as an adult.
The foreskin, like the appendix, has no biological purpose.
My copy of W95 cand on a CD, and I still have it and my DOS 6.2 floppies. All three of them. And the half inch thick book that came with them... too bad they stopped giving printed documentation and instad have those unhelpful help files.
When considering the use of an apostrophe, possession involves of and for. Consider a notice outside a golf club: CaptainÃ(TM)s parking space. The captain doesnÃ(TM)t own the space; it is a parking space for the captain.
I don't own my assigned parking space at work, but it's still mine. I don't own my house, but it's still my house. It's still a possessive; legal ownership doesn't enter into it.
In the case of this carÃ(TM)s colour is too bright the car doesnÃ(TM)t own the colour; it is the colour of the car.
But again, the car possesses the color. You don't have to own something to posess it. If I loan you a book, it's not your book but you are in posession of the book. If you get arrested for a DUI tha cops will tale posession of your car, but it's still your car even though it's in their posession.
Using these guidelines I don't feel so bad about my usage. I believe that American English and British English have a few differences in usage. What may be correct in one, may not be in the other.
The British and Americans use apostrophes in exactly the same way. The only people who say "all the car's are red" are ignorant aliterates who obviously read nothing but internet postings by other aliterates. This is third grade elementary school stuff. Misuse of apostrophes indicates that the writer is incredibly unlearned and it is very, very doubtful that (s)he has ever been to college and most likely dropped out of high school. I can't stress enough how ignorant it makes you look..
You win for now...nerd
That's a compliment. Of course, even the mainstream news sites are saying this is "like Tatooine". Of course it isn't Tatooine itself, since Tatooine is long ago in a galaxy far, far away. This is in our own galaxy only 5000 light years away; the Mayans and Egyptians were still building pyramids when the light we're measuring left those stars.
What's exciting about this isn't that it's like Tatooine (or a lot of other science fiction star systems) but that it exists at all. It was formerly thought impossible for a binary star system to have planets. TFA I read earlier this morning said one of them was the size of Neptune and in the goldilocks zone, and wondered if the Neptune-sized planet had moons, and how strange it would be to be standing on one of those moons.
It seems likely that the outer, Neptune sized planet would have moons, since all the gas giants in our system do. Imagine, two suns, a HUGE GIANT moon (the planet) taking half the sky, and other moons visible as well.
Too bad it's impossible to get 5k light years away, I'd love to see the place.
The Apple ][ never had an 8 inch disk, they were 5 inch disks. AFAIK no PC used an 8 inch disk (please correct me if I'm wrong), although we had some 8 inchers still around 25 years ago in my office. They were used in what was once called "minicomputers".
The image you linked was a Radio Shack five inch disk. The "cover" the GP referred to was the flap on the drive; the dust bunnies will be inside the drive.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. I'd be all for this guy going to jail if someone from Sony would have gone to jail for XCP, which vandalized thousands of their paying customers' computers. As it is, I say payback is a motherfucker and Sony got what was coming to them when this guy brok in to their systems. Actually, they deserve more. They deserve to be run out of business completely.
Yes, I was a victim of Sony's hacking. Put Sony's president in prison and I'll be all for putting this guy in prison.