Actually it has tons to do with facebook. Ten years ago, if you said this in an IM convo, it wasn't public like it is with facebook. Technology has changed, but people use it the same old way. Kids need to learn that facebook is a lot less private, so they should be a lot more careful with what they say.
Chances are that twelve year olds didn't use IM ten years ago, and that Facebook is their first communication medium.
You snobbish whining noble.
Everything the nobles give us comes from the people. I've dabbled in coding FOSS myself, and more than once edited my own patches for things I needed. The gnome devs are giving us things that they got from other FOSS developers from the 90's. Maybe some of the gnome devs are from the 70's-80's.
When Apple changes how things are done, it is design and a brave new world.
Shut the hell up. Apple is Satan. Microsoft is a servitor demon. Some FOSS devs are traipsing the path to Hell with their idiotic good intentions ("let's be like the big boys"). Dumbasses.
Please don't teach kids that it's okay to receive moral instruction from an AI (or worse, a mere expert system). Kids are insidious rules lawyers who will bend and twist words/actions to fit what they want. Human guardians need to be there to make them understand that rules lawyering is not socially acceptable. An expert system will be just as easily beat as the end game boss monster in Mega Man XXXVI.
5) There is a prevalent, and growing culture of anti-intellectualism, caused by multiple interested (non-government) factions of society. (The religious types being only one.)
The religious types aren't even one. There are some religious people who are subsets of broader types that propagate anti-intellectualism, but your standard Priest, Rabbi, and Pastor that walk into a bar together all have at least a decade of higher education under their belts.
the vast majority of my countrymen are ignorant slobs who are too distracted by "Larnin' is hard, yo!"
Yo. This is the true source of anti-intellectualism in our society. Larnin' is hard, and it's not important, so we'll progress you through school, grade by grade, until you're 18 and can pick up your welfare check like a responsible adult, or work on the street corner like an exceptional one. Start flunking kids again. Prove that we as a people take education seriously.
Once the prosecutor looks into things, your ISP will drop you like a hot potato. Arguments in your defense of "but I was only sharing" will be met with "you are in violation of the EULA"
Actually there are some of those same people who believe that must come to pass for the End Times to begin, and actually want to hasten that, so they might not try to prevent such a thing.
No. No Christian wants the "sign/number of the beast" to happen because only people with the mark can buy/sell anything. In today's society, inability to conduct trade is close to a death sentence.
For what it's worth, I hate the "drag to/from the top edge" motion in Windows 7. Easily the worst thing about the OS / Shell from a user-visible perspective. Maybe I want a gimp layers window up on the top of the screen, but not maximized to half the screen?
Minimize is removed because the concept doesn't make much sense in GNOME Shell.
You never want to see the things on your desktop? Will the new gnome lack a desktop that stuff can be stored on? Just a picture, or totally blank? I have to quit/kill the programs to see the desktop? Minimize is MORE functional than maximize, and I maximize every window.
What makes you believe you can't turn them on and off?
Awesomebar. FOSS writers are becoming French nobles, locked up in their personal versions of Versailles. "The people have no minimize button? Let them recompile"
Maximizing a window is such an uncommon thing to do
The first thing I do when opening almost any window, including xterm on a 1900x1200 monitor, is maximize it. I can think of only a few programs like gimp or nautilus where seeing more than one window at a time is advantageous.
So if the "safe level" isn't safe, then how could an unstudied form of radiation be anywhere near safe.
Maybe there's a dip in the safety graph where the radiation is enough to kill cancer but not normal cells (which is potentially a higher dose than what causes normal cells to become cancerous)?
a lot of people carrying a lot of innocuous things will get hassled and have their personal belongings confiscated, all in the name of making stupid people feel safer.
None of it is about weapons. It's all about concession stands (and preventing people from bringing in "outside" beer). Weapons are just an excuse to make people think rooting through your belongings makes sense.
Air intake is from the cool aisle, not hot aisle. Essentially, GP is saying that if the hot aisle is anything lower than 120F, there is extra air-conditioning getting into the cool aisle that shouldn't (waste of cool air). It's more of a health gauge at that end of the computer, kinda like digestion: you make sure you eat well (habitually check the air temperature of the cool side to make sure it's cool enough), and you occasionally look at your stool for corn/blood (see if hot aisle is warm enough) to make sure everything's working as it should.
Did anyone really use 'App Store' in everyday language before the one on the iPhone?
Doesn't matter if anyone used the exact term (someone did, although "store" meant "storage bin" in his case, not "shoppe"), what really matters is if the words are generic for the context. I can't trademark "Broccoli Farm" if my company is a farm that produces broccoli. I could if it were a computer game about a broccoli farm. "App store" is a store for apps (both a repository and a place of purchase). App has been a common term for Application for as long as Apple has been popular, and they didn't coin the term. So, a store that sells apps can't trademark "App Store", let alone App. It would be like McDonalds trademarking Hamburger Restaurant or just Hamburger.
I don't know how you're supposed to find that kind of focus now, when everything in your house either blinks, beeps, or vibrates.
Oh, and: You're supposed to drink copious quantities of caffeinated beverages so that you vibrate and blink in sync with everything else. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiTF4_sDgPo
Well, pre-Xbox attention spans it was digging through man pages.
$man man
NAME
man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals
DESCRIPTION
man is the system's manual pager.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for man is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the info and man programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info man
should give you access to the complete manual.
And no, this isn't really what man man says, but I expect it to eventually. I hate info and its hypertext-ified, hiding-stuff-behind-links format.
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OK, who else thought "Danish Man" was the name of game that's being ported to Android?
*Meekly raises hand*
What is it about Roberts?
They're Dicks.
Richards are Dicks. Roberts are Bobs.
You misunderstood; I was referring to people who are twelve now (two years old ten years ago).
I totally agree with that. The war should not be "on drugs", but on the reasons why people chose taking them.
War on friends, peer pressure, and addiction?
Actually it has tons to do with facebook. Ten years ago, if you said this in an IM convo, it wasn't public like it is with facebook. Technology has changed, but people use it the same old way. Kids need to learn that facebook is a lot less private, so they should be a lot more careful with what they say.
Chances are that twelve year olds didn't use IM ten years ago, and that Facebook is their first communication medium.
You whining little toad.
You snobbish whining noble.
Everything the nobles give us comes from the people. I've dabbled in coding FOSS myself, and more than once edited my own patches for things I needed. The gnome devs are giving us things that they got from other FOSS developers from the 90's. Maybe some of the gnome devs are from the 70's-80's.
When Apple changes how things are done, it is design and a brave new world.
Shut the hell up. Apple is Satan. Microsoft is a servitor demon. Some FOSS devs are traipsing the path to Hell with their idiotic good intentions ("let's be like the big boys"). Dumbasses.
Please don't teach kids that it's okay to receive moral instruction from an AI (or worse, a mere expert system). Kids are insidious rules lawyers who will bend and twist words/actions to fit what they want. Human guardians need to be there to make them understand that rules lawyering is not socially acceptable. An expert system will be just as easily beat as the end game boss monster in Mega Man XXXVI.
5) There is a prevalent, and growing culture of anti-intellectualism, caused by multiple interested (non-government) factions of society. (The religious types being only one.)
The religious types aren't even one. There are some religious people who are subsets of broader types that propagate anti-intellectualism, but your standard Priest, Rabbi, and Pastor that walk into a bar together all have at least a decade of higher education under their belts.
the vast majority of my countrymen are ignorant slobs who are too distracted by "Larnin' is hard, yo!"
Yo. This is the true source of anti-intellectualism in our society. Larnin' is hard, and it's not important, so we'll progress you through school, grade by grade, until you're 18 and can pick up your welfare check like a responsible adult, or work on the street corner like an exceptional one. Start flunking kids again. Prove that we as a people take education seriously.
Once the prosecutor looks into things, your ISP will drop you like a hot potato. Arguments in your defense of "but I was only sharing" will be met with "you are in violation of the EULA"
Actually there are some of those same people who believe that must come to pass for the End Times to begin, and actually want to hasten that, so they might not try to prevent such a thing.
No. No Christian wants the "sign/number of the beast" to happen because only people with the mark can buy/sell anything. In today's society, inability to conduct trade is close to a death sentence.
For what it's worth, I hate the "drag to/from the top edge" motion in Windows 7. Easily the worst thing about the OS / Shell from a user-visible perspective. Maybe I want a gimp layers window up on the top of the screen, but not maximized to half the screen?
Minimize is removed because the concept doesn't make much sense in GNOME Shell.
You never want to see the things on your desktop? Will the new gnome lack a desktop that stuff can be stored on? Just a picture, or totally blank? I have to quit/kill the programs to see the desktop? Minimize is MORE functional than maximize, and I maximize every window.
What makes you believe you can't turn them on and off?
Awesomebar. FOSS writers are becoming French nobles, locked up in their personal versions of Versailles. "The people have no minimize button? Let them recompile"
Maximizing a window is such an uncommon thing to do
The first thing I do when opening almost any window, including xterm on a 1900x1200 monitor, is maximize it. I can think of only a few programs like gimp or nautilus where seeing more than one window at a time is advantageous.
And the Tolkien estate sues him for writing fantasy and using two Rs as middle initials.
I'm waiting for the ring... the one ring to rule them all.
Obligatory Dilbert. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-09-12/
12 hour analogue clocks can also be easily used as a makeshift compass.
So if the "safe level" isn't safe, then how could an unstudied form of radiation be anywhere near safe.
Maybe there's a dip in the safety graph where the radiation is enough to kill cancer but not normal cells (which is potentially a higher dose than what causes normal cells to become cancerous)?
a lot of people carrying a lot of innocuous things will get hassled and have their personal belongings confiscated, all in the name of making stupid people feel safer.
None of it is about weapons. It's all about concession stands (and preventing people from bringing in "outside" beer). Weapons are just an excuse to make people think rooting through your belongings makes sense.
"Me llamo Speedy Gonzales, and I am seis milliseconds sober. Does anyone want to eat the worm?"
Hollywood has become so fixated on [...] TV adaptations
I can't wait until the Stargate shows get a movie adaptation. Maybe a prequel? And Star Wars the Clone Wars is begging for a trilogy or two.
Air intake is from the cool aisle, not hot aisle. Essentially, GP is saying that if the hot aisle is anything lower than 120F, there is extra air-conditioning getting into the cool aisle that shouldn't (waste of cool air). It's more of a health gauge at that end of the computer, kinda like digestion: you make sure you eat well (habitually check the air temperature of the cool side to make sure it's cool enough), and you occasionally look at your stool for corn/blood (see if hot aisle is warm enough) to make sure everything's working as it should.
Did anyone really use 'App Store' in everyday language before the one on the iPhone?
Doesn't matter if anyone used the exact term (someone did, although "store" meant "storage bin" in his case, not "shoppe"), what really matters is if the words are generic for the context. I can't trademark "Broccoli Farm" if my company is a farm that produces broccoli. I could if it were a computer game about a broccoli farm. "App store" is a store for apps (both a repository and a place of purchase). App has been a common term for Application for as long as Apple has been popular, and they didn't coin the term. So, a store that sells apps can't trademark "App Store", let alone App. It would be like McDonalds trademarking Hamburger Restaurant or just Hamburger.
I don't know how you're supposed to find that kind of focus now, when everything in your house either blinks, beeps, or vibrates.
Oh, and: You're supposed to drink copious quantities of caffeinated beverages so that you vibrate and blink in sync with everything else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiTF4_sDgPo
Well, pre-Xbox attention spans it was digging through man pages.
$man man
NAME
man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals
DESCRIPTION
man is the system's manual pager.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for man is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the info and man programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info man
should give you access to the complete manual.
And no, this isn't really what man man says, but I expect it to eventually. I hate info and its hypertext-ified, hiding-stuff-behind-links format.