Could just be a "linux is broken" thing, but when I broadcast SSID I connect instantly. When I don't, it takes between 10 minutes and never to connect.
Do you really think that all the failed bombing attempts which have been foiled prior to boarding a plane are due to anything other than shoddy planning and poor hijackers? I suppose there is the elephant in the room: It is highly unlikely that anyone actually wants to take over and/or destroy your plane, and more lifetimes worth of man-hours have been wasted due to airport security than have ever been lost due to terrorism.
No, the use of the plane itself as a weapon was well understood and ignored, just as the risk from bombs is currently well understood and ignored.
If you really think that taking your shoes off, partial luggage searches, etc, are anything similar to security measures, I suggest that you give your passwords to someone else for safe-keeping.
If you want to be safe and comfortable:
- Nobody should ever be awake on a plane.
- All passengers should be drugged
- Any passenger found awake should be immediately killed
- No luggage. No carry-ons. This includes clothing. This will not be more than a minor inconvenience. FedEx has been dreaming of this day and will be ready to pick up the slack.
If you want to be uncomfortable for a day or so and maintain a shred of dignity:
- Don't be a paranoid jackass.
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I don't think I'll ever understand people who claim that vim has good / extensive help.
VIM has perhaps the absolute worst help system I've ever come across. It's pretty much impossible to find the answer to anything unless you already know the exact command you're trying to find (and very often the exact misname for that command, since so many keywords have multiple meanings, and help just jumps to the first one)
VIM's help is utterly worthless, and shouldn't even be mentioned in a discussion of vim.
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I use Vim every day, and I still don't see how anything which requires manually counting lines on the screen prior to typing a command is supposed to be faster than something which allows lines / characters / words to be highlighted visually prior to typing a command.
As an American living in the U.K., I can't for the life of me figure out why having no clear majority, necessitating that opposing viewpoints actually talk to each-other and compromise, could possibly even begin to be anything other than a very good thing. All I've heard are vague notions of "strong government", but when I ask what that actually means, and why it would be a good thing, I haven't heard an answer at all.
And parliament still looks a thousand times more sane than congress.
It seems that more people get welfare in various forms than actually work in this country
That's a bit like saying "more people eat vegetables of various types than actually eat meat in this country"
That is to say, it's horseshit for more than a handful of reasons, and one doesn't even exclude the other to begin with (nor does each "form" exclude other forms, and percentages don't work like that)
The first amendment gives you the right to free speech. This means that no particular method of speech can be illegal. The content of the speech can be illegal if it directs some other illegal activity (it's illegal to tell someone to kill someone else, for example), but I challenge you to find any method of speech (which does not directly cause harm to another person or another person's property) which is illegal, and has withstood challenges to its legality.
Even bans on cryptography were, if I recall correctly, only bans on the tools to send cryptographic messages being send to other countries. The messages themselves were never restricted. (please correct me with the history if my wiki-stumbling has misinformed me)
Okay, it's 2010, He's going on about how everyone promises productivity enhancement and Outlook finally does it... this is going to be good. The new feature, that we've waited over a decade for, this will change everything... is.....
Thread-view for messages. Flat, by subject-line and date.
Did previous versions of Office really not have this?
Meanwhile: after months of people saying they couldn't switch to Thunderbird because they couldn't import their filters, and they NEEDED their filters, it turns out (after reviewing all the actual needs of everyone using Outlook) that the best solution for "email overload" was to unsubscribe them from a few feeds they NEEDED their filters to ignore for them.
You have a right to communicate anonymously. This is protected by the first amendment and anyone who stands in your way of doing so is committing a crime.
You do NOT have the right to force others to act as if you are anonymous after you communicate non-anonymously. This is not protected by anything, and is pretty stupid.
I have a lot to hide. Don't you? I have a lot to hide from future governments, which may (and often do) decide that what are presently both legal and moral activities, are in fact neither. I have a lot to hide from future societies, which may (and often do) decide that my opinions and actions are punishable by exclusion and death.
cool. I have a credit card and live in a country where banks are required to give you your money back if they give it to some random person who says "lol I'm that guy"
And I'd say that the focus on higher-level languages is a good thing. They're 3rd and 4th generation for a reason: they've been building on the work of those before them.
Yes, there will always be a place for the low-level interactions. And yes, data structures are important to know if you want to get into some of the fancier stuff later in your career.
But have you ever actually seem a recent college grad? If you teach someone with zero practical experience a bunch of data structures and low-level languages, what you get is someone who can't code anything worth reviewing for two years, until they learn not to code a bunch of data structures, and that in the thirty years between when the language their college taught them was invented and now, hundreds of other "ALGOL-like" languages have been invented, many with extensive libraries, some of which are good, and one or two of which we actually use. The one does not require an entry-level programmer to know anything about data-structures, even if it might require our senior programmer to know a lot about them.
oh fuck off. Who the fuck thinks that one adult sending another adult a picture of their exposed flesh is a bad thing?
First label it, then demonize it. If anyone says "uhm, what's wrong with this legitimate use of the device?", just repeat the label as proof that it's a bad thing.
Check cards draw money directly from the account they are tied to.
What more needs to be said? I understand that you're upset your money got stolen, but how much more clear than "Check cards draw money directly from the account they are tied to" can one get? This isn't even a common sense thing. This is a "here, we have explicitly told you what is going on, and if you can't understand what that means you really shouldn't be given a bank account in the first place."
The reason this rule was there in the first place was to prevent two things:
1) "No really! aQrzzxxq! My best friend when I was six!"
2) "No really! aQrzzxxq! I've got the birth certificate right here, and I'll show it to you as soon as I get back from the hospital!"
In America, we are used to wide open spaces, and drive slower in closed in spaces. In the U.K., we are used to closed in spaces, and drive like maniacs throughout.
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Could just be a "linux is broken" thing, but when I broadcast SSID I connect instantly. When I don't, it takes between 10 minutes and never to connect.
You've got my vote
Oh no! You need to restrict yourself to a mere THIRD of the landmass of the planet Earth! What has the world come to?!
Airline travel was only for a few elites fifty years ago, what's so wierd about it being only for a few elites now?
Do you really think that all the failed bombing attempts which have been foiled prior to boarding a plane are due to anything other than shoddy planning and poor hijackers? I suppose there is the elephant in the room: It is highly unlikely that anyone actually wants to take over and/or destroy your plane, and more lifetimes worth of man-hours have been wasted due to airport security than have ever been lost due to terrorism.
No, the use of the plane itself as a weapon was well understood and ignored, just as the risk from bombs is currently well understood and ignored.
If you really think that taking your shoes off, partial luggage searches, etc, are anything similar to security measures, I suggest that you give your passwords to someone else for safe-keeping.
If you want to be safe and comfortable:
- Nobody should ever be awake on a plane.
- All passengers should be drugged
- Any passenger found awake should be immediately killed
- No luggage. No carry-ons. This includes clothing. This will not be more than a minor inconvenience. FedEx has been dreaming of this day and will be ready to pick up the slack.
If you want to be uncomfortable for a day or so and maintain a shred of dignity:
- Don't be a paranoid jackass.
I don't think I'll ever understand people who claim that vim has good / extensive help.
VIM has perhaps the absolute worst help system I've ever come across. It's pretty much impossible to find the answer to anything unless you already know the exact command you're trying to find (and very often the exact misname for that command, since so many keywords have multiple meanings, and help just jumps to the first one)
VIM's help is utterly worthless, and shouldn't even be mentioned in a discussion of vim.
I use Vim every day, and I still don't see how anything which requires manually counting lines on the screen prior to typing a command is supposed to be faster than something which allows lines / characters / words to be highlighted visually prior to typing a command.
As an American living in the U.K., I can't for the life of me figure out why having no clear majority, necessitating that opposing viewpoints actually talk to each-other and compromise, could possibly even begin to be anything other than a very good thing. All I've heard are vague notions of "strong government", but when I ask what that actually means, and why it would be a good thing, I haven't heard an answer at all.
And parliament still looks a thousand times more sane than congress.
It seems that more people get welfare in various forms than actually work in this country
That's a bit like saying "more people eat vegetables of various types than actually eat meat in this country"
That is to say, it's horseshit for more than a handful of reasons, and one doesn't even exclude the other to begin with (nor does each "form" exclude other forms, and percentages don't work like that)
so, uh, where do you work?
The first amendment gives you the right to free speech. This means that no particular method of speech can be illegal. The content of the speech can be illegal if it directs some other illegal activity (it's illegal to tell someone to kill someone else, for example), but I challenge you to find any method of speech (which does not directly cause harm to another person or another person's property) which is illegal, and has withstood challenges to its legality.
Even bans on cryptography were, if I recall correctly, only bans on the tools to send cryptographic messages being send to other countries. The messages themselves were never restricted. (please correct me with the history if my wiki-stumbling has misinformed me)
There's a difference between "communication" and "murder". One is protected by the first amendment, the other is forbidden by the fifth amendment.
Okay, it's 2010, He's going on about how everyone promises productivity enhancement and Outlook finally does it... this is going to be good. The new feature, that we've waited over a decade for, this will change everything... is.....
Thread-view for messages. Flat, by subject-line and date.
Did previous versions of Office really not have this?
Meanwhile: after months of people saying they couldn't switch to Thunderbird because they couldn't import their filters, and they NEEDED their filters, it turns out (after reviewing all the actual needs of everyone using Outlook) that the best solution for "email overload" was to unsubscribe them from a few feeds they NEEDED their filters to ignore for them.
You have a right to communicate anonymously. This is protected by the first amendment and anyone who stands in your way of doing so is committing a crime.
You do NOT have the right to force others to act as if you are anonymous after you communicate non-anonymously. This is not protected by anything, and is pretty stupid.
I have a lot to hide. Don't you?
I have a lot to hide from future governments, which may (and often do) decide that what are presently both legal and moral activities, are in fact neither.
I have a lot to hide from future societies, which may (and often do) decide that my opinions and actions are punishable by exclusion and death.
cool. I have a credit card and live in a country where banks are required to give you your money back if they give it to some random person who says "lol I'm that guy"
And I'd say that the focus on higher-level languages is a good thing. They're 3rd and 4th generation for a reason: they've been building on the work of those before them.
Yes, there will always be a place for the low-level interactions. And yes, data structures are important to know if you want to get into some of the fancier stuff later in your career.
But have you ever actually seem a recent college grad? If you teach someone with zero practical experience a bunch of data structures and low-level languages, what you get is someone who can't code anything worth reviewing for two years, until they learn not to code a bunch of data structures, and that in the thirty years between when the language their college taught them was invented and now, hundreds of other "ALGOL-like" languages have been invented, many with extensive libraries, some of which are good, and one or two of which we actually use. The one does not require an entry-level programmer to know anything about data-structures, even if it might require our senior programmer to know a lot about them.
oh fuck off. Who the fuck thinks that one adult sending another adult a picture of their exposed flesh is a bad thing?
First label it, then demonize it. If anyone says "uhm, what's wrong with this legitimate use of the device?", just repeat the label as proof that it's a bad thing.
Check cards draw money directly from the account they are tied to.
What more needs to be said? I understand that you're upset your money got stolen, but how much more clear than "Check cards draw money directly from the account they are tied to" can one get? This isn't even a common sense thing. This is a "here, we have explicitly told you what is going on, and if you can't understand what that means you really shouldn't be given a bank account in the first place."
I've been sitting in an IRC channel with all the devs all day every day. Sounds like an all-day meeting to me, it's just more efficient.
theonion.com has video?
Next stage: ticket sales decline, so theatres attempt to attract customers by making special offers, such as "free popcorn with every ticket!"
And the only thing that changes is that people who say videogames aren't too expensive wind up making less-roundabout arguments.
that is not tetris.
The reason this rule was there in the first place was to prevent two things:
1) "No really! aQrzzxxq! My best friend when I was six!"
2) "No really! aQrzzxxq! I've got the birth certificate right here, and I'll show it to you as soon as I get back from the hospital!"
In America, we are used to wide open spaces, and drive slower in closed in spaces.
In the U.K., we are used to closed in spaces, and drive like maniacs throughout.