I think that's the one thing about Microsoft products that annoy me the most - lack of consistancy. There's no reason whatever why they should have different wording in a Mac version than a Windows, version, or between version 3.2 and 3.3. They can't even keep stuff in the same menu selection between releases!
But when I'm using a program, I have little time to relearn the damned thing. I hate it when they upgrade Microsoft products at work; upgrading other products is seldom any hassle at all.
Machines are better at counting than people. But machines can't design, period. I'm not calling for ridding ourselves of paper trails; I WANT paper trails. But I trust a machine to do simple arithmetic. I also trust people to lie, cheat, steal, and game the system.
If I didn't trust machines I'd never get in an alavator or an automobile.
Of course, I almost died once when an automobile failed. I guess I'm not as rational as I thought...
BTW, your ignorance is showing. Four [Windows] computers in this room... Four [Windows] computers which connected to the internet by simply plugging in a cable from my router and following a simple wizard.
I've never found any of Microsoft's "wizards" to be simple. And there is no wizard needed in Linux.
If you are spending $50 on jeans - you are a fool.
Agreed.
Mine cost me $25, and they are real jeans - not the low quality knockoffs sold at Wal-Mart. (You have to be really, really, careful shopping at Wal-mart. Many of their 'brand name' items are low quality 'self knockoffs' manufactured specifically for sale at Wal-Mart.)
I'm wearing the same pair of Wranglers I paid $12 at WalMart for three years ago. I'm not into "brand names" or fashion. Maybe I should be, I might get laid once in a while...
I keep wondering what it is about the Japanese. They seem to always come up with ideas that are incredibly clever, yet incredibly stupid, at the same time.
There's little that's more annoying than pulling up to a red light, listening to your favorite song, when some asstunnel pulls up next to you with the #1 chart topping RIAA dreck that you absolutely HATE blasting our of his windows.
I don't want to hear your fucking radio. I don't want to hear your fucking road, either. This idea is incredibly clever, but at the same time the most retarded thing I've heard all week.
Actually, this Springfield is even more cartoonish than the TV Springfield. One of our Aldermen is Gail Simpson. Todd Renfrow, the guy in charge of our power plant, is a dead ringer for Mr. Burns (he's the guy in front of the giant check, on the right). Betty Boop lives here, Popeye, Olive, Bluto and Brutis all live here, although the Spriingfield Betty Boop's head is bigger, and Springfield's Olive Oyl is flatter chested. Many of our denizens are bugeyed (although not all of them).
here is a tale of some of our trolls. here are a lot more Springfield stories, all true, few believable.
On another tack, I'd much prefer the wacko extremists be filing lawsuits rather than the alternatives many wacko extremists select - such as building bombs.
Are you saying that having a verifiable paper trail is a "wacko extremist" idea? And that you go along with it?
There is less difference between the two wings of the Republicrat Party than there were between the different factions of the USSR's Communist party.
There are more than two sides. I try to NEVER vote for a Republicrat, as the Republicrats are all bought and paid for by the corporations. Rather than waste my vote on a candidate who consistantly votes against my beliefs and wishes (like the Bono Act, DMCA, Patriot Act, Bankrupcy reform, etc) I split my vote betweeen the Greens and the Libertarians. A vote for a Republicrat is a wasted vote.
You want Kevin Mitnick to determine the next election? (no, not THAT Mitnik, I mean the Russian guy) Hmmph, I guess it's no worse than having Sony and BP's bribes; excuse me, "campaign contributions" determine it.
I'm amazed that anyone here would trust their vote about ANYTHING on the internet.
But the referendum Idea is one I'd go along with. There's no reason any law has to be passed RIGHT NOW; we could vote every year. I'd have the same way we do it now; a bill passes the house and Senate, then is vetoed by the President. Only I'd add another step, and give we, the people a chance to veto it as well if he let it become law. You'd need a Constitutional Amendment to do this, though.
I'd also have all laws automatically repealed after a set amount of time, say 5 years. Good laws would have little trouble being passed again, while crap like the telephone tax would easily die.
Would prohibition have passed if the people could have vetoed it? How about marijuana prohibition? I'd be willing to bet that one would have died in th '70s if there were term limits to laws.
Keep on hand ballots for English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Braille (which could go to audio cues), oh, and large type varieties for people hard of seeing.
Should a non-citizen have the right to vote? I vote no. As you have to speak English to pass the test to become a US citizen, I see no need for other languages on the ballot in the US.
As to large print, before I had my operation (click the sig) I had trouble reading the ballot as I forgot my reading glasses. NOT having large print as the standard is stupid; unless you've had a CrystaLens implant, by the time you're 50 you need reading glasses, as everyone's focusing lens gets hard and won't focus.
You only need one ballot, in one language (French if you are in France, I guess you'ld need two languages in Canada) but one typeface - LARGE. The braile could be on all the ballots as well.
In a few hours on Nov. 4, 1952, Univac altered politics, changed the world's perception of computers and upended the tech industry's status quo. Along the way, it embarrassed CBS long before Dan Rather could do that all by himself.
It is the story of how Univac predicted that Eisenhower would win by a landslide, and CBS news wouldn't report the results because they didn't believe in the machine, nor that Eisenhower would win by a landslide. I found the piece fascinating, and think it kind of pertains to now, over half a century later. History does indeed repeat itself, although I doubt it ever EXACTLY repeats itself.
I had a (now retired) supervisor with a PhD in statistics that double checked his spreadsheets with a calculator (with good reason it now appears) and checked the calculator calculations by hand.
But personally, I always trusted the machine more than people. Machines don't get tired or distracted, and 200,000,000 is a pretty big number to count all the way up to without making a mistake (ok, I already made one - that's population, not voters).
Of course, I can't say the same about spell checkers, which it seems unlike me (who won't trust the spill chucker) my fellow slashdotters are utterly dependent on =)
Unless Sangamon is the only sane county (well, we know every politician in Cook county is crooked; see our present Governor linving in Chicago despite the Illinois Constitutional mandate that he live in Springfield, and the previous governor living in PRISON) in Illinois, this lawsuit has no merit here.
The last two elections I voted on a touch screen, and was presented with a paper audit trail that I presented to the election judge, who put it in a ballot box.
Not every state has Diebold crap.
And it wouldn't matter if the machine used Access as a database (or even Excel. Since there's a paper trail you can always retabulate the results, by hand if need be.
As the saying goes, "don't fix it if it ain't broke". Last I heard, there were still suppliers around making replacement parts for PDP's since they still used at power plants among other places.
I wonder if Springfield's power plant uses antique computers? I'm thinking it must be an old computer from a 1960s science fiction movie or TV show, since the thing BLEW UP Saturday night!
Thanks, but I still can't find "Always show full menus" in Word, Excel, or Access. There's a "menus show recently used commands first" that doesn't seem to do anything at all, with a "show full menus after a short delay" checkbox.
I'm wondering why anyone thought that particular feature would be useful to anyone? Probably the same guy that though "Clippy" was a good feature (I actually know a guy who not only has left Clippy enabled, but likes it. But he's a runner, full of endorphins, and we all know what drugs do to the brain...)
IINM the same corporation that owns WalMart bought out Kmart a few years ago. I have a choice of grocery stores (although there's only one close enough to be handy) but oddly, they're all about the same, except the Miejer store, which is a gigantic store that advertises its low prices despite the fact that it's the most expensive store in town.
It was the first with self-serve checkout. I wouldn't shop there even if it were close and cheap.
I think that although your post is humorous, it's also incorrect. There was a nature show on TV with a young antelope and two lions. The antelope had no fear of the lions, and the lions dodn't know how to act, although they did wind up eating it in the end.
That's pretty much standard procedure for most cats I've seen, and what's more, mousing isn't instinctive but is taught by the momma cat (as is using a litter box).
When we moved to Springfield's ghetto in utter poverty a couple of decades ago, the hovel we moved into was infested by mice. Every morning when I got up there would be a dead mouse laid next to the chair I sat in to drink my coffee, and what's more was laid there exectly the same way every day. This went on until the cat ran out of mice.
What's wierd is a female cat I have now. When we adopted this cat as a kitten, my insane then-wife had ammassed about 7 cats, all but two male. Now, male cats wil back up against anything at all, and mark it as its territory.
The then-kitten female mimics this behavior, raising its tail and shaking its ass like the males do. Fortunately all it mimics is the movement; there's no usine, unlike the males (boy did that house STINK).
They say "monkey see, monkey do" but I suspect it's a mammal trait rather than a monkey trait.
A flea is munching on an elephant, and starts getting horney. Having no other fleas to screw, he decides to do the elephant (shush that "don't play with your food" nonsense). Anyway, he's humping the elephant when a coconut falls on the elephant's head. "OW!" exclams the elephant.
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I think that's the one thing about Microsoft products that annoy me the most - lack of consistancy. There's no reason whatever why they should have different wording in a Mac version than a Windows, version, or between version 3.2 and 3.3. They can't even keep stuff in the same menu selection between releases!
But when I'm using a program, I have little time to relearn the damned thing. I hate it when they upgrade Microsoft products at work; upgrading other products is seldom any hassle at all.
Machines are better at counting than people. But machines can't design, period. I'm not calling for ridding ourselves of paper trails; I WANT paper trails. But I trust a machine to do simple arithmetic. I also trust people to lie, cheat, steal, and game the system.
If I didn't trust machines I'd never get in an alavator or an automobile.
Of course, I almost died once when an automobile failed. I guess I'm not as rational as I thought...
BTW, your ignorance is showing. Four [Windows] computers in this room... Four [Windows] computers which connected to the internet by simply plugging in a cable from my router and following a simple wizard.
I've never found any of Microsoft's "wizards" to be simple. And there is no wizard needed in Linux.
If you are spending $50 on jeans - you are a fool.
Agreed.
Mine cost me $25, and they are real jeans - not the low quality knockoffs sold at Wal-Mart. (You have to be really, really, careful shopping at Wal-mart. Many of their 'brand name' items are low quality 'self knockoffs' manufactured specifically for sale at Wal-Mart.)
I'm wearing the same pair of Wranglers I paid $12 at WalMart for three years ago. I'm not into "brand names" or fashion. Maybe I should be, I might get laid once in a while...
I keep wondering what it is about the Japanese. They seem to always come up with ideas that are incredibly clever, yet incredibly stupid, at the same time.
There's little that's more annoying than pulling up to a red light, listening to your favorite song, when some asstunnel pulls up next to you with the #1 chart topping RIAA dreck that you absolutely HATE blasting our of his windows.
I don't want to hear your fucking radio. I don't want to hear your fucking road, either. This idea is incredibly clever, but at the same time the most retarded thing I've heard all week.
-mcgrew
Actually, this Springfield is even more cartoonish than the TV Springfield. One of our Aldermen is Gail Simpson. Todd Renfrow, the guy in charge of our power plant, is a dead ringer for Mr. Burns (he's the guy in front of the giant check, on the right). Betty Boop lives here, Popeye, Olive, Bluto and Brutis all live here, although the Spriingfield Betty Boop's head is bigger, and Springfield's Olive Oyl is flatter chested. Many of our denizens are bugeyed (although not all of them).
here is a tale of some of our trolls. here are a lot more Springfield stories, all true, few believable.
-mcgrew
On another tack, I'd much prefer the wacko extremists be filing lawsuits rather than the alternatives many wacko extremists select - such as building bombs.
Are you saying that having a verifiable paper trail is a "wacko extremist" idea? And that you go along with it?
Hanging Chad's anyone?
hanging chad's WHAT?
And note, this applies to BOTH sides equally
There is less difference between the two wings of the Republicrat Party than there were between the different factions of the USSR's Communist party.
There are more than two sides. I try to NEVER vote for a Republicrat, as the Republicrats are all bought and paid for by the corporations. Rather than waste my vote on a candidate who consistantly votes against my beliefs and wishes (like the Bono Act, DMCA, Patriot Act, Bankrupcy reform, etc) I split my vote betweeen the Greens and the Libertarians. A vote for a Republicrat is a wasted vote.
-mcgrew
You want Kevin Mitnick to determine the next election? (no, not THAT Mitnik, I mean the Russian guy) Hmmph, I guess it's no worse than having Sony and BP's bribes; excuse me, "campaign contributions" determine it.
I'm amazed that anyone here would trust their vote about ANYTHING on the internet.
But the referendum Idea is one I'd go along with. There's no reason any law has to be passed RIGHT NOW; we could vote every year. I'd have the same way we do it now; a bill passes the house and Senate, then is vetoed by the President. Only I'd add another step, and give we, the people a chance to veto it as well if he let it become law. You'd need a Constitutional Amendment to do this, though.
I'd also have all laws automatically repealed after a set amount of time, say 5 years. Good laws would have little trouble being passed again, while crap like the telephone tax would easily die.
Would prohibition have passed if the people could have vetoed it? How about marijuana prohibition? I'd be willing to bet that one would have died in th '70s if there were term limits to laws.
Keep on hand ballots for English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Braille (which could go to audio cues), oh, and large type varieties for people hard of seeing.
Should a non-citizen have the right to vote? I vote no. As you have to speak English to pass the test to become a US citizen, I see no need for other languages on the ballot in the US.
As to large print, before I had my operation (click the sig) I had trouble reading the ballot as I forgot my reading glasses. NOT having large print as the standard is stupid; unless you've had a CrystaLens implant, by the time you're 50 you need reading glasses, as everyone's focusing lens gets hard and won't focus.
You only need one ballot, in one language (French if you are in France, I guess you'ld need two languages in Canada) but one typeface - LARGE. The braile could be on all the ballots as well.
-mcgrew
In '52, huge computer called Univac changed election night.It is the story of how Univac predicted that Eisenhower would win by a landslide, and CBS news wouldn't report the results because they didn't believe in the machine, nor that Eisenhower would win by a landslide. I found the piece fascinating, and think it kind of pertains to now, over half a century later. History does indeed repeat itself, although I doubt it ever EXACTLY repeats itself.
-mcgrew
I had a (now retired) supervisor with a PhD in statistics that double checked his spreadsheets with a calculator (with good reason it now appears) and checked the calculator calculations by hand.
But personally, I always trusted the machine more than people. Machines don't get tired or distracted, and 200,000,000 is a pretty big number to count all the way up to without making a mistake (ok, I already made one - that's population, not voters).
Of course, I can't say the same about spell checkers, which it seems unlike me (who won't trust the spill chucker) my fellow slashdotters are utterly dependent on =)
Unless Sangamon is the only sane county (well, we know every politician in Cook county is crooked; see our present Governor linving in Chicago despite the Illinois Constitutional mandate that he live in Springfield, and the previous governor living in PRISON) in Illinois, this lawsuit has no merit here.
The last two elections I voted on a touch screen, and was presented with a paper audit trail that I presented to the election judge, who put it in a ballot box.
Not every state has Diebold crap.
And it wouldn't matter if the machine used Access as a database (or even Excel. Since there's a paper trail you can always retabulate the results, by hand if need be.
-mcgrew
Perhaps in some parts of the world; I'm not even sure other countries had 7 digit numbers. But I think the 3-4 was pretty much standard across the US.
As the saying goes, "don't fix it if it ain't broke". Last I heard, there were still suppliers around making replacement parts for PDP's since they still used at power plants among other places.
I wonder if Springfield's power plant uses antique computers? I'm thinking it must be an old computer from a 1960s science fiction movie or TV show, since the thing BLEW UP Saturday night!
So don't try to fix nothin' for me, newbie. You'll just break it. Now sitten backen unt watchen das blinkenlights. ;-)
Hey, geezers are SUPPOSED to have bad memories. But I was 12 when I met my first computer in 1964.
Only at slashdot would "your comments signifigance eludes me" be rated "insightful".
Thanks, but I still can't find "Always show full menus" in Word, Excel, or Access. There's a "menus show recently used commands first" that doesn't seem to do anything at all, with a "show full menus after a short delay" checkbox.
I'm wondering why anyone thought that particular feature would be useful to anyone? Probably the same guy that though "Clippy" was a good feature (I actually know a guy who not only has left Clippy enabled, but likes it. But he's a runner, full of endorphins, and we all know what drugs do to the brain...)
IINM the same corporation that owns WalMart bought out Kmart a few years ago. I have a choice of grocery stores (although there's only one close enough to be handy) but oddly, they're all about the same, except the Miejer store, which is a gigantic store that advertises its low prices despite the fact that it's the most expensive store in town.
It was the first with self-serve checkout. I wouldn't shop there even if it were close and cheap.
I think that although your post is humorous, it's also incorrect. There was a nature show on TV with a young antelope and two lions. The antelope had no fear of the lions, and the lions dodn't know how to act, although they did wind up eating it in the end.
That's pretty much standard procedure for most cats I've seen, and what's more, mousing isn't instinctive but is taught by the momma cat (as is using a litter box).
When we moved to Springfield's ghetto in utter poverty a couple of decades ago, the hovel we moved into was infested by mice. Every morning when I got up there would be a dead mouse laid next to the chair I sat in to drink my coffee, and what's more was laid there exectly the same way every day. This went on until the cat ran out of mice.
What's wierd is a female cat I have now. When we adopted this cat as a kitten, my insane then-wife had ammassed about 7 cats, all but two male. Now, male cats wil back up against anything at all, and mark it as its territory.
The then-kitten female mimics this behavior, raising its tail and shaking its ass like the males do. Fortunately all it mimics is the movement; there's no usine, unlike the males (boy did that house STINK).
They say "monkey see, monkey do" but I suspect it's a mammal trait rather than a monkey trait.
A flea is munching on an elephant, and starts getting horney. Having no other fleas to screw, he decides to do the elephant (shush that "don't play with your food" nonsense). Anyway, he's humping the elephant when a coconut falls on the elephant's head. "OW!" exclams the elephant.
"Suffer, baby, suffer" says the flea.
Aren't mice intelligently designed by Steve Jobs?
Sorry, but I've never been a fan of non-ergonomic mice with only one button. One more argument against intelligent design.
Actually you don't need genetic engineering to overcome irrational fears. Start with A nerd's Guide to overcoming fear of pussy, which not ironically caused me to have my nerd license suspended for a while. I got it back after an attractive woman moved in with me and I still can't get laid!
But by then it will be far too late to do anything but welcome our new cheese-eating overlords.
Let me get this straight - these are French mice? And they're fearless???? *head explodes*
Not news. They already engineering ones that do not fear my wife.
I think when they said they bred mice that weren't afraid of pussy they weren't talking about your wife.
Another team took the opposite approach and genetically engineered many people I know to have an irrational fear of global warming
You mean they engineered people to irrationally NOT fear something that could make the planet uninhabitable?
I'm glad their tackling this fear things from both ends.
That's just SO gay I won't even comment...