How do you produce the zinc oxide powder? How do you produce the cylindrical structure? Not trolling, genuinly asking. If someone with more metallurgical knowledge than me tells me zinc oxide is common and easy to mine, I'll believe it. But it's a question we must ask.
He [...] handed out DVDs on the idea [intelligent design] while at work
The question is whether the plaintiff was fired simply because he was wasting people's time and bothering them in ways that would have led him to being fired regardless of whether it was about religion or whether he was treated worse based on the religiosity of his beliefs.
Unless you want to teach GNOME, or KDE, or Unity, or Cinnamon, start them off with a command line-only Linux install. At that level, all distros are essentially identical except for package management. And even there, the two big ones, apt and rpm, are different only in their syntax.
FBI: I'm going to harm this child unless you give me Bob's information.
Facebook: I don't think that's how you're supposed to interpret our guidelines...
durability - No. Show me an iPad that can survive being run over by a car and then getting soaked.
accessibility - What does that even mean when you're talking about books?
consistent quality - Putting them on iPads isn't going to fix this.
interactivity - Fair enough again. But is this needed?
and searchability - Ever heard of an index?
What Apple has really done is taken a cornered market (students being forced to buy new editions every year) and changed the entity doing the cornering from something students hate (publishers) to something students blindly adore (Apple).
I have family in Russia. One of them told me about their colleague, a woman who's responsible for signing the ballot count. The votes are counted, the Communist Party is a clear winner in that riding, and she signs. Someone from United Russia then brings her a different paper, with the count modified to make United Russia (Putin's party) win. She says "I can't sign this, this is fraud." "Sign it." "No, I can't." "Sign it or you'll lose your job." Her meager salary is already not enough to live on, she can't afford to lose it. So she signs.
This, bizarrely, reminds me of an article on feminism, and how, having won the major gender inequality battles, they're starting to pick silly fights where a rational person would see no fight to pick.
I think something similar is happening here, and with Ubuntu's Unity and maybe GNOME 3 as well. Having achieved a big chunk of what they set out to achieve, they start looking for the next big goal, but there's no next big goal to be found, so they just invent something utterly ridiculous. The file system is fine, just leave it be. All the newbies need to know about is their home directory, and those who need to know about the entire file system are perfectly fine with how it's currently laid out.
But your product isn't the mountain, it's the ski lift and the course markers. Why not get the best mountain you can, rather than insisting on getting YOUR mountain.
I don't understand, could you provide a car analogy?
The point is that lighting is something that you *will have anyways*, so why not run a processor off of it. They're not proposing adding light bulbs to your house just to power your laptop. I honestly can't believe this got modded 3 insightful at the time of this writing.
We let companies off the hook for the same reasons we fight for BitTorrent to be allowed unimpeded, or are against gun control. Companies make and sell tools, they are not responsible for the use people make of those tools.
Prezi will only catch on when they remove the retarded "Create game-changing presentations online" tagline from their front page.
Things that were game-changing: revolutions, the car, flight.
Things that are not game-changing: presentations.
No seriously. People still plug unknown cocks they've just found in a bar into themselves (and the other way around, but that simile doesn't work as well - all I'm trying to say is, this is a gender neutral metaphor). And the viruses you can get from that are way more dangerous than anything your computer can get.
Dismissing the message because of the messenger is akin to racism, in which you dismiss the person because of the race. I don't like the Daily Mail any more than you do, but this particular article had no ZOMG FOREIGNERS content, so I didn't mind. Yeah, it squeezed two sentences of information into 10 paragraphs of text, but everything does that nowadays.
Also, did you really need to tell all of Slashdot about your super Firefox extension? Don't want to read the Daily Mail? OK, don't read it in private. Bragging about it makes you look like a wanker, not an intellectual.
(Man, who peed in my Cheerios this morning? I don't normally post bile like that...)
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How do you produce the zinc oxide powder? How do you produce the cylindrical structure? Not trolling, genuinly asking. If someone with more metallurgical knowledge than me tells me zinc oxide is common and easy to mine, I'll believe it. But it's a question we must ask.
From the TFA:
He [...] handed out DVDs on the idea [intelligent design] while at work
The question is whether the plaintiff was fired simply because he was wasting people's time and bothering them in ways that would have led him to being fired regardless of whether it was about religion or whether he was treated worse based on the religiosity of his beliefs.
The former.
Next thing you know, we'll be engraving our coinage with trust in religious beings.
You mean like "In God we trust"?
Unless you want to teach GNOME, or KDE, or Unity, or Cinnamon, start them off with a command line-only Linux install. At that level, all distros are essentially identical except for package management. And even there, the two big ones, apt and rpm, are different only in their syntax.
FBI: I'm going to harm this child unless you give me Bob's information.
Facebook: I don't think that's how you're supposed to interpret our guidelines...
"Real work" is not helped by "exposing the OS complexity."
Physical textbooks lack:
What Apple has really done is taken a cornered market (students being forced to buy new editions every year) and changed the entity doing the cornering from something students hate (publishers) to something students blindly adore (Apple).
I have family in Russia. One of them told me about their colleague, a woman who's responsible for signing the ballot count. The votes are counted, the Communist Party is a clear winner in that riding, and she signs. Someone from United Russia then brings her a different paper, with the count modified to make United Russia (Putin's party) win. She says "I can't sign this, this is fraud." "Sign it." "No, I can't." "Sign it or you'll lose your job." Her meager salary is already not enough to live on, she can't afford to lose it. So she signs.
And you get the benefit of one of the best GUI's in the desktop world
No.
Their products have to come out of somewhere...
This, bizarrely, reminds me of an article on feminism, and how, having won the major gender inequality battles, they're starting to pick silly fights where a rational person would see no fight to pick.
I think something similar is happening here, and with Ubuntu's Unity and maybe GNOME 3 as well. Having achieved a big chunk of what they set out to achieve, they start looking for the next big goal, but there's no next big goal to be found, so they just invent something utterly ridiculous. The file system is fine, just leave it be. All the newbies need to know about is their home directory, and those who need to know about the entire file system are perfectly fine with how it's currently laid out.
But your product isn't the mountain, it's the ski lift and the course markers. Why not get the best mountain you can, rather than insisting on getting YOUR mountain.
I don't understand, could you provide a car analogy?
The point is that lighting is something that you *will have anyways*, so why not run a processor off of it. They're not proposing adding light bulbs to your house just to power your laptop. I honestly can't believe this got modded 3 insightful at the time of this writing.
We let companies off the hook for the same reasons we fight for BitTorrent to be allowed unimpeded, or are against gun control. Companies make and sell tools, they are not responsible for the use people make of those tools.
Prezi will only catch on when they remove the retarded "Create game-changing presentations online" tagline from their front page.
Things that were game-changing: revolutions, the car, flight.
Things that are not game-changing: presentations.
Prezi will only catch on when they remove the retarded "Create game-changing presentations online" tagline from their front page. Things that were game-changing: revolutions, the car, flight. Things that are not game-changing: presentations.
I *study* at ETS, go ETS! Yay!
No seriously. People still plug unknown cocks they've just found in a bar into themselves (and the other way around, but that simile doesn't work as well - all I'm trying to say is, this is a gender neutral metaphor). And the viruses you can get from that are way more dangerous than anything your computer can get.
Things Slashdot needs:
1. Mod points for me
2. A "-1 Ignorant" moderation
1960's: "Little Johnny, what do you want to be when you grow up?" "An engineer for NASA, helping build the craft that will take us to Mars!"
2010's: "Little Johnny, what do you want to be when you grow up?" "A rapper who brags about his bling and his bitches!"
What happened to all those cries of boycotting them for their treatment of geohot?
Easy! c=sqrt(e/m)
I am Canadian, so maybe I just haven't been exposed enough to the Daily Mail to start properly hating it...
Dismissing the message because of the messenger is akin to racism, in which you dismiss the person because of the race. I don't like the Daily Mail any more than you do, but this particular article had no ZOMG FOREIGNERS content, so I didn't mind. Yeah, it squeezed two sentences of information into 10 paragraphs of text, but everything does that nowadays. Also, did you really need to tell all of Slashdot about your super Firefox extension? Don't want to read the Daily Mail? OK, don't read it in private. Bragging about it makes you look like a wanker, not an intellectual. (Man, who peed in my Cheerios this morning? I don't normally post bile like that...)
You know your telco industry is broken when Canadians are laughing at you.