When talking to the uninitiated, I like to bring up an analogy using bouncers.
When you have bouncers from just one security firm, things are alright. He'll do his best to keep the baddies out, things can carry on mostly undisturbed. Things ain't perfect, but hey, whatcha gonna do.
On the other hand, if you hire additional bouncers from a different security firm, those two groups will spend most of their time shouting at each other, getting in scuffles, fucking things up for everyone.
This analogy is simple enough to sink in with mom & pop.
- http://gpodder.org/ fetches 20+ podcast subscriptions
- Snarfer (defunct, no website) to follow various news outlets and alert me to fresh xkcd, smbc, etc.
- live bookmarks in Pale Moon to see if something pops up on the various youtube channels I like. No channel subscription with Google account necessary.
- http://showrss.info/ generates a nice rss feed of current tv show episodes which is directly pulled by qbittorrent.
My whole information and entertainment usage would collapse if rss went the way of the dodo.
Facebook Europe is incorporated in Ireland. This is why German politicians are so fed up with facebook - whenever facebook fucks up, the German facebook representatives just shrug their shoulders and tell the authorities to please speak with Ireland, where any complains get quickly tossed into the memory hole.
You are correct in stating that restrictions on speech in Germany were created with good purpose.
You're an idiot for stating that Germany is still an occupied country.
Most of the civilized world work that way. Because we understand the necessity.
By extension, much of the workings of the United States are uncivilized. I wholeheartedly agree.
Opening Arguments made a podcast about this case, give it a listen if you want to have the case entertainingly explained from a legal point of view: http://openargs.com/oa32-phil-...
Microsoft has announced ages ago that Win 10 will be on a perpetual rolling release. There's absolutely no reason to report on the breakfast choices of every junior developer in Redmond.
Whenever I frequent a fast food joint, I have to waste plenty of time looking at pretty pictures. I'd vastly prefer if there was a text menu, preferably with sensibly categories such as main dishes, desserts, drinks and whatnots.
...the more I'm digging http://www.qupzilla.com/
Despite the name, not a Firefox fork. It's lightweight, does what I need and available for a bunch of operating systems.
Your're presenting the strawman Dawinks creationists like to espouse. Specifically, your youtube forays are not evidence that Dawkins hasn't presented the evidence for evolution, they are evidence you havent looked into the matter thoroughly. Check out Dawkins's book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Show_on_Earth:_The_Evidence_for_Evolution.
However, and this is purely my perspective, once I've had a little talk with users when giving them the tour of their newly resurrected system, faces light up when I tell them that this little thingamajig after the filename is how Windows decides what type of file it is and what Windows thinks it can do with it. The gap to getting a grip on the whole systems seems (to me) to close quite a bit.
Amazingly, the "type" column in Windows Explorer seems not to work for users at all. In the ear, out the other.
Really, this has got to be the premiere cause of users not gaining some semblance of understanding in the basics of Windows-based computing. Once users start seeing these little tags after the name of a file, everything becomes much easier to explain and suddenly users are undimmed, if not enlightened.
Since all links in the article submission seem to be slashdotted, an offshoot of Menuet OS named KolibriOS is located at http://www.kolibrios.org/?&lang=en.
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You might also want to give http://silk.apana.org.au/fc.html a go, available for Windows, Unix and OS/2.
That was a beautiful read. Thank you!
When talking to the uninitiated, I like to bring up an analogy using bouncers.
When you have bouncers from just one security firm, things are alright. He'll do his best to keep the baddies out, things can carry on mostly undisturbed. Things ain't perfect, but hey, whatcha gonna do.
On the other hand, if you hire additional bouncers from a different security firm, those two groups will spend most of their time shouting at each other, getting in scuffles, fucking things up for everyone.
This analogy is simple enough to sink in with mom & pop.
All of which were communist, not socialist.
Just for the record, wikipedia claims the incident that killed Shannon Smith occured during June, not during New Year celebrations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon's_law_(Arizona)
I just realized how much I depend on RSS:
- http://gpodder.org/ fetches 20+ podcast subscriptions
- Snarfer (defunct, no website) to follow various news outlets and alert me to fresh xkcd, smbc, etc.
- live bookmarks in Pale Moon to see if something pops up on the various youtube channels I like. No channel subscription with Google account necessary.
- http://showrss.info/ generates a nice rss feed of current tv show episodes which is directly pulled by qbittorrent.
My whole information and entertainment usage would collapse if rss went the way of the dodo.
Facebook Europe is incorporated in Ireland. This is why German politicians are so fed up with facebook - whenever facebook fucks up, the German facebook representatives just shrug their shoulders and tell the authorities to please speak with Ireland, where any complains get quickly tossed into the memory hole.
Hey Germans, what ever happened to "nie wieder"?
That's rich, considering that we in the US just elected a nationalistic militaristic fascist.
Maybe Germany is at least trying to do the right thing?
You are correct in stating that restrictions on speech in Germany were created with good purpose.
You're an idiot for stating that Germany is still an occupied country.
Most of the civilized world work that way. Because we understand the necessity.
By extension, much of the workings of the United States are uncivilized. I wholeheartedly agree.
Opening Arguments made a podcast about this case, give it a listen if you want to have the case entertainingly explained from a legal point of view: http://openargs.com/oa32-phil-...
Microsoft has announced ages ago that Win 10 will be on a perpetual rolling release. There's absolutely no reason to report on the breakfast choices of every junior developer in Redmond.
tl;dr: This is not news.
Study says people who incessantly make the same typos are idiots.
The only questions this should raise is how much jail time these data grabbers should get and why there's no one campaigning on privacy rights.
Still a better love story than Twilight.
Disable all the privacy-invading stuff and you're basically left with Windows 7 with added eye cancer.
Whenever I frequent a fast food joint, I have to waste plenty of time looking at pretty pictures. I'd vastly prefer if there was a text menu, preferably with sensibly categories such as main dishes, desserts, drinks and whatnots.
You might want to try http://www.wsusoffline.net/ if something similar arises in the future.
...the more I'm digging http://www.qupzilla.com/ Despite the name, not a Firefox fork. It's lightweight, does what I need and available for a bunch of operating systems.
Your're presenting the strawman Dawinks creationists like to espouse. Specifically, your youtube forays are not evidence that Dawkins hasn't presented the evidence for evolution, they are evidence you havent looked into the matter thoroughly. Check out Dawkins's book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Show_on_Earth:_The_Evidence_for_Evolution.
No, the default uninformed user won't notice.
However, and this is purely my perspective, once I've had a little talk with users when giving them the tour of their newly resurrected system, faces light up when I tell them that this little thingamajig after the filename is how Windows decides what type of file it is and what Windows thinks it can do with it. The gap to getting a grip on the whole systems seems (to me) to close quite a bit.
Amazingly, the "type" column in Windows Explorer seems not to work for users at all. In the ear, out the other.
STOP HIDING FILE EXTENSIONS!
Really, this has got to be the premiere cause of users not gaining some semblance of understanding in the basics of Windows-based computing. Once users start seeing these little tags after the name of a file, everything becomes much easier to explain and suddenly users are undimmed, if not enlightened.
Since all links in the article submission seem to be slashdotted, an offshoot of Menuet OS named KolibriOS is located at http://www.kolibrios.org/?&lang=en.
The human psyche plays a significant role that pure science doesn't admit to because it can't be proven in a test scenario.
Nonsense. The effect of the human psyche on healing has been very well examined. It's called the placebo effect.
We know the human body gives off energy but people refuse to accept the "auras" are possible or significant for some reason.
And more nonsense. "Auras" are a metaphysical notion, having nothing to do with reality. You're mixing religious and reality-based language.
Accessing from Germany, ISP is Versatel. No commercial, just the report, works as it should.