In many ways, the iPhone's Mail program is the best mobile e-mail client out there.
I wasn't drinking anything, but I almost choked on my own saliva. I'd rather use alpine on my iphone than mail.app. I've managed to crash that thing plenty of times, and there's no searching, no gpg/pgp, no preventing it from attempting to open _everything_ in your mail folder including archived folders from years ago, yadda yadda.
So Novell, one of the biggest Linux distributors in the world, and Microsoft, one of the biggest companies in world history, couldn't find a single large customer on Planet Earth to buy into Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server software.
I know this is a lie. I know two large companies that make wide use of SLES and SLED.
Is it just me, or seems the job of 'editor' on an English language news sight should going to the requirement that those cramming it should not fail at basic English literafication?
This is not a flame, this is a serious?
I don't think the disdain for education appeared out of nowhere. Religion is often actively working against scientific advancement or proliferation. This may be a result of subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, influence from religious fanatics who often get lots of facetime in American Media. Many people in the US "believe" in religion and unfortunately many people in power also do as well (although they could just be pandering to their bill paying religious overlords).
I think it's more just that people don't intellectually respect what they think they don't have the time or need to learn about. The disdain I receive(d) from less educated people for being a science nerd is the same I get from equally-educated people for being religious. From my perspective, both stem from ignorance, and my status as "the different, the other".
A personal example with myself as the bad guy: When I worked at the large IT hub for a huge company, I often forgot how the company actually made money. All of my "clients" were software developers for in-house apps, or other sysadmins. I held the visiting business folk in disdain because I felt I had no time or need to learn what they did. That specialization made me effective in my position, but also anti-social to "outsiders" who really weren't outsiders. In my defense, sometimes a BOFH stance was necessary with their never-updated laptops.
It has nothing to do with a culture that works very hard to create the image of the 'nerd' as something to be shunned as opposed to the 'businessman' the 'beauty queen' and the 'wealthy person' that everyone should try to be.
I corrected your spelling.
That's pretty much conservatism in a nutshell. It's all about the monopolization of resources, the encouragement of inanity to limit threats to the status quo, and good dose of misdirection to keep the victims angry at someone else. (In this case, inner city blacks, though liberals, intellectuals, Jews, women, gays, and many other groups serve that purpose just as well. This particular example is used because it is the only segment of American society that is less educated than the conservative base.)
Ignoring the "beauty queen", because you're right about that... "Businessmen" and "Wealthy people" tend to get to those places by doing what works, constructively, which is more often than not tied to some sort of science or at least intellectual pursuit. If you want to rail against a perceived bias by the GP, please do it correctly by identifying - as you did quite excellently with the beauty queen - traditionally stupid or (self)destructive ideals. For example: The "sports hero" from GP (works for every group in our culture), being a single unemployed mother to 14 children, or a "War Hero" (don't get me wrong, I love our military, but you have to be off your nut or terminally ill to actively seek "death with honor").
Does it say how many fell into the range of 60-85%? I'll bet a _lot_ of people know that the world is mostly covered by water, but they don't know by what percentage.
This type of misunderstanding was bound to happen at some point. Physicists should have chosen their descriptive words for particles better. At least the quark descriptors are weird enough not to be confused with other physics.
I have a broadcom card in my laptop. Since 8.04 LTS, I haven't even had to touch the command line to set up the wifi (I obviously do for other reasons). After logging in, it popped up an icon for restricted drivers (poor name, that. I thought it was drivers I _shouldn't_ install). Clicked my graphics card and wifi card. Done.
A surefire way to get around keyboard monitoring is not to use one. It is admittedly rather tedious, but if you have good cause to be concerned about security, you can use an on-screen keyboard.
Tempest.
In future ITSO announcements:
Your pass-group must contain one of each of the following:
20 character passphrase
keyfob fingerprint reader
rentinal scan
one spoken word (which may not be any of: [cut dear don't everything eye God I my no off out take thumb told you])
I'd rather have an installer that breaks another app, so that I reinstall the first program just to get the shared DLLs. That way, no unnecessary cruft is left behind.
I checked on the Internet, and can confirm that this is true.
On a side note, can slashdot have a special place for articles with titles that end in a question mark?
The internet you say? See, I checked on the internet too, on some page called slashdot, and it seems like a rumor. Until it's on Apple's site (and not a discussion-board wishlist), it's a rumor. If it's a fact that Apple bought these touchscreens, that doesn't mean they're going into netbooks. Maybe Jobs wants these to be the new plates in the Cupertino cafeteria. Maybe the next Mac notebook is a 20" model, and they wanted to split the screen into four pieces for some reason.
But according to the CCTV footage, the criminals start by crouch-walking to their targets, then they start stabbing at one stab per second while still two meters away, escalating to bunny hopping if the victim fights back, and eventually crouching again after the crime.
Bullying is a swirly, emotional trauma, or a little roughing up.
A group of kids stabbing another kid is psychopathy. The principal was probably just as scared of these psychos because he remembers "Children of the Corn" (and he's not allowed to defend himself or others per UK law).
most ppl raised with knifes being an every day tool treat them with respect as they have cut themselves in the past and have an understanding and respect of the harm they can do.
Obligatory Family Guy Quote:
"That hurts! My God, is that what I've been doing to people? I belong here."
I think, for the last 30 years or so, we've been trying to become more like America.
If that were true, young punks knifing/shooting people would get lead poisoning. I used to hate guns until I found out how many law abiding citizens around me had them. I still don't carry, but I like the fact that others do. It's kind of like "herd immunity" when discussing flu vaccinations.
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In many ways, the iPhone's Mail program is the best mobile e-mail client out there.
I wasn't drinking anything, but I almost choked on my own saliva. I'd rather use alpine on my iphone than mail.app. I've managed to crash that thing plenty of times, and there's no searching, no gpg/pgp, no preventing it from attempting to open _everything_ in your mail folder including archived folders from years ago, yadda yadda.
Cut taxes to 20%, max.
I wonder what I could buy if I had 80% of my money. Oh, wait, sales tax would also be 20%? Guvmint's gotta get its fix somehow.
Holy crap! A few minutes means you were doing it all wrong.
Unless the few minutes was the big O. Then, well, something's still technically wrong, but only technically.
Wasn't Adrian Veidt working on marketing the Watchmen in exactly this sort of way?
No, Veidt was marketing the Crimebusters
So Novell, one of the biggest Linux distributors in the world, and Microsoft, one of the biggest companies in world history, couldn't find a single large customer on Planet Earth to buy into Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server software.
I know this is a lie. I know two large companies that make wide use of SLES and SLED.
Is it just me, or seems the job of 'editor' on an English language news sight should going to the requirement that those cramming it should not fail at basic English literafication? This is not a flame, this is a serious?
-Editeding from kdawson
I don't think the disdain for education appeared out of nowhere. Religion is often actively working against scientific advancement or proliferation. This may be a result of subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, influence from religious fanatics who often get lots of facetime in American Media. Many people in the US "believe" in religion and unfortunately many people in power also do as well (although they could just be pandering to their bill paying religious overlords).
I think it's more just that people don't intellectually respect what they think they don't have the time or need to learn about. The disdain I receive(d) from less educated people for being a science nerd is the same I get from equally-educated people for being religious. From my perspective, both stem from ignorance, and my status as "the different, the other".
A personal example with myself as the bad guy: When I worked at the large IT hub for a huge company, I often forgot how the company actually made money. All of my "clients" were software developers for in-house apps, or other sysadmins. I held the visiting business folk in disdain because I felt I had no time or need to learn what they did. That specialization made me effective in my position, but also anti-social to "outsiders" who really weren't outsiders. In my defense, sometimes a BOFH stance was necessary with their never-updated laptops.
It has nothing to do with a culture that works very hard to create the image of the 'nerd' as something to be shunned as opposed to the 'businessman' the 'beauty queen' and the 'wealthy person' that everyone should try to be.
I corrected your spelling.
That's pretty much conservatism in a nutshell. It's all about the monopolization of resources, the encouragement of inanity to limit threats to the status quo, and good dose of misdirection to keep the victims angry at someone else. (In this case, inner city blacks, though liberals, intellectuals, Jews, women, gays, and many other groups serve that purpose just as well. This particular example is used because it is the only segment of American society that is less educated than the conservative base.)
Ignoring the "beauty queen", because you're right about that... "Businessmen" and "Wealthy people" tend to get to those places by doing what works, constructively, which is more often than not tied to some sort of science or at least intellectual pursuit. If you want to rail against a perceived bias by the GP, please do it correctly by identifying - as you did quite excellently with the beauty queen - traditionally stupid or (self)destructive ideals. For example: The "sports hero" from GP (works for every group in our culture), being a single unemployed mother to 14 children, or a "War Hero" (don't get me wrong, I love our military, but you have to be off your nut or terminally ill to actively seek "death with honor").
Does it say how many fell into the range of 60-85%? I'll bet a _lot_ of people know that the world is mostly covered by water, but they don't know by what percentage.
This type of misunderstanding was bound to happen at some point. Physicists should have chosen their descriptive words for particles better. At least the quark descriptors are weird enough not to be confused with other physics.
I have a broadcom card in my laptop. Since 8.04 LTS, I haven't even had to touch the command line to set up the wifi (I obviously do for other reasons). After logging in, it popped up an icon for restricted drivers (poor name, that. I thought it was drivers I _shouldn't_ install). Clicked my graphics card and wifi card. Done.
A surefire way to get around keyboard monitoring is not to use one. It is admittedly rather tedious, but if you have good cause to be concerned about security, you can use an on-screen keyboard.
Tempest.
In future ITSO announcements:
Your pass-group must contain one of each of the following:
20 GOTO SUBJECT
Kind of like the male version of the gray witches from the tale of Perseus.
Why would you buy a computer at office depot?
Just before netbooks came out, they were selling the low-end laptops (which are still better than netbooks) for ~$400. Not a bad deal.
Um, it'll be a bit difficult for the terrorists to get to a Trident missile system, let alone fire it.
Not if they're the Terror Bears! </Obscure TMNT RPG Reference>
I'd rather have an installer that breaks another app, so that I reinstall the first program just to get the shared DLLs. That way, no unnecessary cruft is left behind.
I checked on the Internet, and can confirm that this is true.
On a side note, can slashdot have a special place for articles with titles that end in a question mark?
The internet you say? See, I checked on the internet too, on some page called slashdot, and it seems like a rumor. Until it's on Apple's site (and not a discussion-board wishlist), it's a rumor. If it's a fact that Apple bought these touchscreens, that doesn't mean they're going into netbooks. Maybe Jobs wants these to be the new plates in the Cupertino cafeteria. Maybe the next Mac notebook is a 20" model, and they wanted to split the screen into four pieces for some reason.
But according to the CCTV footage, the criminals start by crouch-walking to their targets, then they start stabbing at one stab per second while still two meters away, escalating to bunny hopping if the victim fights back, and eventually crouching again after the crime.
I carry my coat around until it's unbearably hot because it has several large pockets, two of which are big enough for a 10" diagonal tablet.
Bullying is a swirly, emotional trauma, or a little roughing up.
A group of kids stabbing another kid is psychopathy. The principal was probably just as scared of these psychos because he remembers "Children of the Corn" (and he's not allowed to defend himself or others per UK law).
most ppl raised with knifes being an every day tool treat them with respect as they have cut themselves in the past and have an understanding and respect of the harm they can do.
Obligatory Family Guy Quote:
"That hurts! My God, is that what I've been doing to people? I belong here."
I think, for the last 30 years or so, we've been trying to become more like America.
If that were true, young punks knifing/shooting people would get lead poisoning. I used to hate guns until I found out how many law abiding citizens around me had them. I still don't carry, but I like the fact that others do. It's kind of like "herd immunity" when discussing flu vaccinations.
Because the vaunted chefs of England would rise in revolt, brandishing their filet knives!
Pfft. The CCTV camera boxes would just announce "You there, stop that!" via loudspeaker. Revolt quelled.
Is there an easy way to automate this duplication? Some weird "very small, very-high-repetition on same volume" file system, or just a perl script?
windows cmd: FOR /L %X IN (0,1,965957) DO copy foo.txt foo%X.txt
bash: X=0 ; while [ $X -lt 965958 ] ; do cp foo.txt foo${X}.txt ; X=`expr $X + 1`; done