I'll admit to liking that "emergency chance" to fiddle with files with some open/save dialog in flux. It's my quick chance to go fix something when I'm mainly doing something else. However, it's not my primary way to deal with files when I am "dealing with files".
Here's another spin on your post though. I'll call "lynchpin" when one fairly modest little change to something suddenly creates mental blocks that everything else jams up behind. Here's mine, for Linux: Why isn't all the cool stuff on Right Click? In Windows, as a quick phrase to teach a low skill user how to use Windows, I said that "when you get stuck, Right Click and see what shows up." A quick glance just now gives me (create) new (file of ) X type, view icons by detail lists, cut copy paste rename delete, properties, extract zipped files, open-with (some non-default program), and more.
My big logjam preventing me from slinging stuff in Linux is the lack of all those essential features off the right click menu. Some of them are there in one desktop-environ, some are in another, but not all of them. Do you know the backbone answer? Is it a big patent from MS "means of putting ____ function on a right click button" or did the desktop-environment people somehow not use that stuff and therefore never put it there?
I'm a fan of plugins & extensions, so even if it's not there natively, I'll kludge my way with a plugin. I might be one of only 1% who hated the MS Excel Ribbon so much that I did something about it. I downloaded a plugin, paid a few bucks, and kept on doing work.
if you know of really powerful "Windows-ize Linux" plugin I would really like to know. Then I can start making Rosetta-Stones and really learning. The only thing stopping me so far is I keep reaching for Right Click and time and again something I need isn't there.
There's a trend going on lately that says "Aggression Wins", in that some entity that makes aggressive moves either wins or "cancels" with no penalty, thus rewarding aggression.
Fun Fact: One of the Anniversary Editions of Stratego changed the rules from either "two equal pieces destroy each other" or even "defensive piece wins" (I forget) to "in an equal matchup the attacking piece wins". I didn't understand it 10 years ago, but I do now.
I agree they were never going to destroy the water. They just at first decided to remove all of the public access facilities.
No one's yet mentioned the other side of the story - to "start this campaign" all these volunteers - had to commit copyright infringement! So the wild part is that instead of suing each user for $ONE BILLION DOLLARS each, they said "oh, cool. You like that stuff. Okay, we'll keep it so we can make some ad money."
Remember that story about "what happens if Google buys Big Music"? *Relatively* Google is lax on copyright because they understand ad revenue relies on sharing velocity. So if they bought Big Music, and I wish they'd buy the airports and do a colossal Frontier Airlines makeover on them, in one administration all those security and **AA execs stuffed into the Gov driving the Winter of Fear are going to get mighty uncomfortable.
Just a little more time. Let's get it in the open, Vista was a documented Hail Mary from when they lost two entire years of dev time and started over about 2004. 7 is just what Vista should have been if they had planned better.
So now that 7 got the "housekeeping" done, it's time to see what Windows 8 is, with its plans for App Stores vs. whatever evil media tracking tricks get baked into the OS.
This could be the longest night, in copyright history And as you blog, blog, you might as well just cross it off the list of possibilities; I'm as connected as the next man, I won't turn and run from a story; And I could read a million years, if I could just blog through this night.
I could be a web novelist, tell secrets never heard, pour my soul into each and every sentence, but I still can't find the words; 'Till I know that you're out there, and you can relate to it all, And I could bear the cold copyright winter, if I make my deadline call.
Don't you know that there's no place on this earth, where you can escape the pain of a facebook post; It's useless to spend the time it takes you to try. But can't you see that I'm here, and I'm tweeting just the same...
I could be a movie star, the king of Hollywood, Make them cry, Grammatically Pretending, to keep the illusion alive; And I'll humbly thank my director, and the MPAA involved from the start, And I could blow them all away, if I could only find a part;
I stil have a long haul wager that updating and twiddle will go up in fireworks when The Event happens, in whichever form it comes first. What strikes me as funny is how the media "as portrayed on FA's on Slashdot & Fark" doesn't seem to get it, not all of it. I always screw up this metaphor, but call it classic Boiled Frog/Lobster. Does no one see:
- "move to the cloud and go mobile!" vs "Let's reduce mobile bandwidth and have AT&T finally fess up to years of network neglect" - "Facebook using your real names" vs "Geotagging even when you think you're being understated about your whereabouts" - "National Trusted ID's in Cyberspace" vs "Felony Misclicks for streaming as well as copying" - That glorious mix of chaos when we can't figure out if Govs & Corps are being Stupid or Evil?
Call it the Kent State 2.0. When The Event (Events Plural?) finally land, maybe we'll get something like multiplexed triple encrypted ultra-proxies or something and we'll be at Web 3.0. Bet Short on Facebook - just at the right time so that one last spike doesn't get you first.
See, this is all still so Old School, pun intended.
Not counting the courses with hands on and special equipment, consider all these lecture courses. Hello PodCast!
Education needs to be $500 per course including both books and lectures and say 5 hours total personal questions/office hours/emails/etc. Then you can buy a course and ponder it no matter how long it takes you, rather than "start a clock" and risk un-erasable F's. Then when you think you're ready you sit for the test.
$40,000 Ivy fees are all smoke and mirrors. But amazingly we're still griping about music and movies, and we're missing the golden goose of info.
This report is actively dangerous, in a sort of flamebait FUD way.
Let's just do one example - how about Sweden, (former?) home of the Pirate Bay and the Party thereon, and key pawn in the coercion attempt against, wait for it, Australian Julian Assange from the UK led by the US?
Oh wait!
Those three countries get slots 2, 4, and 5 and Sweden is... uh... censored?
Marshall McLuhan (I think?) would be proud that the Medium is the Message. If you wanted to talk about Feynman's Awesomeness, you/someone would have posted a story like "It's the 50th anniversary of Feynman's Lectures. How has Feynman contributed to what you do today?"
This story is "Microsoft bought the rights to SomeCoolContent. However, they couldn't have picked any of three generic video formats, but once again made an excuse to follow their Proprietary Only strategy."
2002 called. They want their "Sites work only in IE" back.
Actually I'm saying thanks to the submitter because I completely missed this part of the copyright problem.
If the only "authorized copy" of some Grade AA Must-Have item is buried it that cabinet with the Beware of Leopard sign, that could instantly flash us to IE6 2.0 problems for hundreds of proprietary blobs!
Yeah, this is the part that bothers me too - did the techies "trust & ignore" Apple for an entire year believing that Apple was being faddish but that's all?
I'm definitely courting the trolls on this one, but for that "cheating spouse" angle, do they have the Accelerometer data too?
I do still use a few CDs, when I want to slightly "overstylize" a set of backups etc, and $2 CD's I get in bulk. That gets into the whole Music thing.
Then if you're gonna get flea market videos for a dull evening, they're likely to be DVDs.
But my big surprise I had lately is that NONE of it matters. I suddenly discovered I don't care for movies much except some top-10 per year, so that's not worth a Blu player and I don't game so I can't slide into it.
I hang out on boards, including this, and I do a ton of reading (tho Borders just croaked!), and I am working on my career and simpler family activities.
We asked for a Smart Pres. and maybe we got one for once. He has FOUR years to get through, so he had to buy time not to get the famous Opposite Party Squash.
He sorta did that. We may dislike lots of the provisions in "Obamacare" but someone pointed out that NONE of the past four presidents managed to get anywhere useful with health care. So as we all know, it's easier to tenderly, lovingly boil the frog, if he has a health framework in place, he / successor can fiddle with it now, it's not this "OMG don't vote that plan in" thing.
It's the SECOND term and in years 2-3 a Pres can go for broke. Look, he conquered the 150 year Race issue so easily we aren't even talking about it!!
Good, because Oracle's whole move was a ruthless high end power game. They bought Sun to be able to mess with Java, except I don't recall them having any direct stake in any of Google's direct lines. It's almost like it's a five-company DDOS lawsuit attack. (Helping both MS and Apple by trying to make Google "lose momentum" etc?)
Slashdot Mirror
I'll admit to liking that "emergency chance" to fiddle with files with some open/save dialog in flux. It's my quick chance to go fix something when I'm mainly doing something else. However, it's not my primary way to deal with files when I am "dealing with files".
Here's another spin on your post though. I'll call "lynchpin" when one fairly modest little change to something suddenly creates mental blocks that everything else jams up behind. Here's mine, for Linux: Why isn't all the cool stuff on Right Click? In Windows, as a quick phrase to teach a low skill user how to use Windows, I said that "when you get stuck, Right Click and see what shows up." A quick glance just now gives me (create) new (file of ) X type, view icons by detail lists, cut copy paste rename delete, properties, extract zipped files, open-with (some non-default program), and more.
My big logjam preventing me from slinging stuff in Linux is the lack of all those essential features off the right click menu. Some of them are there in one desktop-environ, some are in another, but not all of them. Do you know the backbone answer? Is it a big patent from MS "means of putting ____ function on a right click button" or did the desktop-environment people somehow not use that stuff and therefore never put it there?
I'm a fan of plugins & extensions, so even if it's not there natively, I'll kludge my way with a plugin. I might be one of only 1% who hated the MS Excel Ribbon so much that I did something about it. I downloaded a plugin, paid a few bucks, and kept on doing work.
if you know of really powerful "Windows-ize Linux" plugin I would really like to know. Then I can start making Rosetta-Stones and really learning. The only thing stopping me so far is I keep reaching for Right Click and time and again something I need isn't there.
If they're really nice to you they'll kick you in the quadraceps muscle instead of the spine.
Not necessarily trouble - it could be arrogance.
There's a trend going on lately that says "Aggression Wins", in that some entity that makes aggressive moves either wins or "cancels" with no penalty, thus rewarding aggression.
Fun Fact: One of the Anniversary Editions of Stratego changed the rules from either "two equal pieces destroy each other" or even "defensive piece wins" (I forget) to "in an equal matchup the attacking piece wins". I didn't understand it 10 years ago, but I do now.
You missed my point AC.
Google chose ad revenue over copyright lawsuits!
Do that with Big Music and let the people share, say on a music annex of youtube, and ditch the lawsuit winter.
No, it's like a water oasis in the dry west.
I agree they were never going to destroy the water. They just at first decided to remove all of the public access facilities.
No one's yet mentioned the other side of the story - to "start this campaign" all these volunteers - had to commit copyright infringement! So the wild part is that instead of suing each user for $ONE BILLION DOLLARS each, they said "oh, cool. You like that stuff. Okay, we'll keep it so we can make some ad money."
Remember that story about "what happens if Google buys Big Music"? *Relatively* Google is lax on copyright because they understand ad revenue relies on sharing velocity. So if they bought Big Music, and I wish they'd buy the airports and do a colossal Frontier Airlines makeover on them, in one administration all those security and **AA execs stuffed into the Gov driving the Winter of Fear are going to get mighty uncomfortable.
Just a little more time.
Let's get it in the open, Vista was a documented Hail Mary from when they lost two entire years of dev time and started over about 2004. 7 is just what Vista should have been if they had planned better.
So now that 7 got the "housekeeping" done, it's time to see what Windows 8 is, with its plans for App Stores vs. whatever evil media tracking tricks get baked into the OS.
(With a salute to Styx)
This could be the longest night, in copyright history
And as you blog, blog, you might as well just cross it off the list of possibilities;
I'm as connected as the next man, I won't turn and run from a story;
And I could read a million years, if I could just blog through this night.
I could be a web novelist, tell secrets never heard,
pour my soul into each and every sentence, but I still can't find the words;
'Till I know that you're out there, and you can relate to it all,
And I could bear the cold copyright winter, if I make my deadline call.
Don't you know that there's no place on this earth,
where you can escape the pain of a facebook post;
It's useless to spend the time it takes you to try.
But can't you see that I'm here, and I'm tweeting just the same...
I could be a movie star, the king of Hollywood,
Make them cry, Grammatically Pretending, to keep the illusion alive;
And I'll humbly thank my director, and the MPAA involved from the start,
And I could blow them all away, if I could only find a part;
If I just get through the copyright night.
I stil have a long haul wager that updating and twiddle will go up in fireworks when The Event happens, in whichever form it comes first. What strikes me as funny is how the media "as portrayed on FA's on Slashdot & Fark" doesn't seem to get it, not all of it. I always screw up this metaphor, but call it classic Boiled Frog/Lobster. Does no one see:
- "move to the cloud and go mobile!" vs "Let's reduce mobile bandwidth and have AT&T finally fess up to years of network neglect"
- "Facebook using your real names" vs "Geotagging even when you think you're being understated about your whereabouts"
- "National Trusted ID's in Cyberspace" vs "Felony Misclicks for streaming as well as copying"
- That glorious mix of chaos when we can't figure out if Govs & Corps are being Stupid or Evil?
Call it the Kent State 2.0. When The Event (Events Plural?) finally land, maybe we'll get something like multiplexed triple encrypted ultra-proxies or something and we'll be at Web 3.0. Bet Short on Facebook - just at the right time so that one last spike doesn't get you first.
See, this is all still so Old School, pun intended.
Not counting the courses with hands on and special equipment, consider all these lecture courses. Hello PodCast!
Education needs to be $500 per course including both books and lectures and say 5 hours total personal questions/office hours/emails/etc.
Then you can buy a course and ponder it no matter how long it takes you, rather than "start a clock" and risk un-erasable F's. Then when you think you're ready you sit for the test.
$40,000 Ivy fees are all smoke and mirrors. But amazingly we're still griping about music and movies, and we're missing the golden goose of info.
Phonez. Phonez. Phonez. OmMyGawd! Phonez!
Let's get some Phones! Let's get some Phones!
This Phone Rulez! That Phone Sux! This Phone Rulez! That Phone Sux!
(Derivative work of Liam Kyle Sullivan)
Let's go further.
This report is actively dangerous, in a sort of flamebait FUD way.
Let's just do one example - how about Sweden, (former?) home of the Pirate Bay and the Party thereon, and key pawn in the coercion attempt against, wait for it, Australian Julian Assange from the UK led by the US?
Oh wait!
Those three countries get slots 2, 4, and 5 and Sweden is ... uh... censored?
Nah. I just spend my days realizing that as always xkcd is ahead of me once again.
http://m.xkcd.com/305/
http://xkcd.com/596/
Nah, it's a comic crossing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Marshall McLuhan (I think?) would be proud that the Medium is the Message. If you wanted to talk about Feynman's Awesomeness, you/someone would have posted a story like "It's the 50th anniversary of Feynman's Lectures. How has Feynman contributed to what you do today?"
This story is "Microsoft bought the rights to SomeCoolContent. However, they couldn't have picked any of three generic video formats, but once again made an excuse to follow their Proprietary Only strategy."
2002 called. They want their "Sites work only in IE" back.
Actually I'm saying thanks to the submitter because I completely missed this part of the copyright problem.
If the only "authorized copy" of some Grade AA Must-Have item is buried it that cabinet with the Beware of Leopard sign, that could instantly flash us to IE6 2.0 problems for hundreds of proprietary blobs!
Yeah, this is the part that bothers me too - did the techies "trust & ignore" Apple for an entire year believing that Apple was being faddish but that's all?
I'm definitely courting the trolls on this one, but for that "cheating spouse" angle, do they have the Accelerometer data too?
Gaping Wholes are the Paradigm Shifts that the submitter is wrestling with!
It could be much worse. You could get a lot of things done, per George W. Then they blame it on the opposite party to fix it.
Jack Nicolson's Joker Likes this.
"Yo God sux!"
"I'm gonna kill you!"
This is on target here.
I do still use a few CDs, when I want to slightly "overstylize" a set of backups etc, and $2 CD's I get in bulk. That gets into the whole Music thing.
Then if you're gonna get flea market videos for a dull evening, they're likely to be DVDs.
But my big surprise I had lately is that NONE of it matters. I suddenly discovered I don't care for movies much except some top-10 per year, so that's not worth a Blu player and I don't game so I can't slide into it.
I hang out on boards, including this, and I do a ton of reading (tho Borders just croaked!), and I am working on my career and simpler family activities.
We asked for a Smart Pres. and maybe we got one for once. He has FOUR years to get through, so he had to buy time not to get the famous Opposite Party Squash.
He sorta did that. We may dislike lots of the provisions in "Obamacare" but someone pointed out that NONE of the past four presidents managed to get anywhere useful with health care. So as we all know, it's easier to tenderly, lovingly boil the frog, if he has a health framework in place, he / successor can fiddle with it now, it's not this "OMG don't vote that plan in" thing.
It's the SECOND term and in years 2-3 a Pres can go for broke. Look, he conquered the 150 year Race issue so easily we aren't even talking about it!!
Good, because Oracle's whole move was a ruthless high end power game. They bought Sun to be able to mess with Java, except I don't recall them having any direct stake in any of Google's direct lines. It's almost like it's a five-company DDOS lawsuit attack. (Helping both MS and Apple by trying to make Google "lose momentum" etc?)
Please do!
Your sentence fails to prohibit a heat converter system to power my iPhone 12.
I dunno, in an oligarchy like we have now, you have this twisty spread of Rock Scissors Paper.
We know all of what evil MS was capable of in their prime, so now their humility looks like "we can't pull our tricks, so we'll smile a little."
So then you dance to the "Rebel Company" aka Apple. You spend a while debating "dominant vs rebel". Then you consider the Android Clones.
I know what MS is, I feel like Tech needs a little bit of a jolt.
Poor AC. Too bad outrage doesn't matter as much as it used to.