Hey, I'm a teenage girl and there is a chunk of the teenage-girl-population that I swear speaks a different language. If someone figured out how to translate math into their language, good for them.
OSX and Linux are supposedly about even at 3%, from what I hear.
OSX does take "easy" to an extreme in most cases (except for where there's not just one menu in System Preferences for auto-starting programs when peripherals are plugged in or media is inserted, and then sometimes it's not in the program itself either...ex: plug in a camera and iPhoto comes up but iPhoto has no setting for that. It's in Image Capture's preferences for some reason...who'd think to look there?), and I could definitely see my mom using it about as well as she uses Linux--meaning much much better (and more comfortably, I think) than she used Windows. The lack of right click is probably the one thing that would make a Mac better for her than Linux, but it's not worth spending that much on a computer she'd use so little when she can just ignore the right mouse button like she always has. I'm still not a big fan of OSX. Being able to drag anything into anywhere is pretty nice, and the Address Book is the best I've seen, but Aqua annoys me enough that I'll occasionally complain that Macs are only usable from the command line.
Doesn't OSX hide the file extensions by default? Oh, and Apple Mail saves the messages in a proprietary format, so switching to Thunderbird or to non-OSX means your files go away (and remember, if you use POP they're probably not on the server anymore...if they are, they say you have 2000 unread messages). Correct me if I'm wrong. It's just what I've been told.
WTF are you talking about? The old versions do get uninstalled when new versions are installed, but it doesn't F with things so bad that you can't uninstall the new one and put the old one back. For me, that'd mean all I have to do is add --force-downgrade to dpkg when I reinstall the old version. Using apt the.debs stick around, but that's like when you leave all your setup.exe's sitting on your desktop. At least there's a setting in Synaptic to automatically remove them when installations finish and a command to remove them all at once if you don't want it to be automatic. Can't tell Windows to automatically delete all setup.exe's from the Desktop after they install.
Oh yeah, sorting, forgot that one. I don't use databases much. I don't do much that can't be done in vim, and if I need more a word processor is enough.
Software as a literary work only subjects it to copyright, which is much better than the current system where there are now patents on math-in-the-form-of-software.
By putting prayer in schools, you would be removing freedom of religion, not adding it. "No, Mr. Steinberg, you cannot sit out our prayer to the Lord Jesus Christ. We pray in this school, and I don't care if you're 'Jewish' or whatever it is you said"? As it is, any kid can pray to whatever god(s)/goddess(es) they want to, if they want to. Want to say Grace before lunch? Go ahead. The teachers just aren't leading kids who most likely hold different beliefs through one set of prayers which only recognizes one of those beliefs.
Anyway, there were rapists, murderers, and shootings as long as there've been genitals, weapons, and weapons involving projectiles. How about we stop glorifying death and killing in movies, tv, music, games, and the news? Yes, I'm including the news. There's so much "go us! We killed 300 people...a bunch of them were probably just random unarmed bystanders, but they could've turned bad at any time, right? We rock for killing so many people!" in the coverage of this "war" on an idea. Someone should remind the people in charge that the invention of the Gutenberg Press heralded the end of the time when it was possible to kill an idea. Back on topic, though, ethics don't require religion at all. Everything about our lives has changed. We're much more stressed, and at a younger age, too. Stress can make people snap. Parents don't have time for their kids. Kids don't have time to be kids (too busy trying to get a 4.7 GPA and work 30 hr/wk while doing 5+hr/wk of community service in 9th grade to get into a good school). Do we blame the lack of prayer before driving for road rage?
Isn't 24/7 normal hours for university libraries? I know my school's is 24/7, though 3 floors (2 during finals) close between 11pm and 7am.
Agreed though about LAN parties. That's just weird. Libraries are for quiet study. Maybe a public library might do that once in a while, but it'd probably be for a "the new Harry Potter book is coming out so let's play Harry Potter video games and watch Harry Potter movies!" thing.
I'm pretty sure it's tag soup before anyone puts anything in their profile. Oh, and all those *lovely* "unexpected errors" that within a week you learn to expect because they use ColdFusion on a site that requires something with better scalability.
1. Racism is the wrong word. It'd be xenophobia because being Chinese-American doesn't mean you understand a Chinese guy trying to pronounce technical words correctly in English.
2. The problem with accents is that they can be unintelligible. If your accent is really really thick, I might not know what word you're saying. It could be any of a number of things. They might be trying to name a kind of RAM. That'd be hard to understand. "PC2400? PC400? Peezee Thundered? What did they say?"
I worked at a computer repair shop. The main tech and I could both handle Windows and Linux. The other guy would only say "Linux sucks. It actually works, so I can't get paid to fix it." I guess he never heard about Linux+ & LPIC certifications getting you money or about Unix sysadmins being paid more than Windows sysadmins (less common skill, get paid more).
Straight women and gay men have index fingers that are about the same length or a little longer than their ring fingers. Lesbians and straight men have longer ring fingers. Like TFA says, it has to do with prenatal testosterone levels.
I was just really really amused when they said, basically, that Neo's a bug. He's an off-by-one error. Non-programmers wouldn't understand all the stuff about the little girl being unnecessary software and Neo being a bug, but it's kind of funny to see a face on those things.
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Hey, I'm a teenage girl and there is a chunk of the teenage-girl-population that I swear speaks a different language. If someone figured out how to translate math into their language, good for them.
Girl wasn't the only part there. Howabout "not straight," eh?
Not if you're a straight girl geek.
I'm not; don't start hitting on me. Male geeks keep doing that when I say I'm a girl and into computers. You're not getting laid. Go away.
OSX and Linux are supposedly about even at 3%, from what I hear.
OSX does take "easy" to an extreme in most cases (except for where there's not just one menu in System Preferences for auto-starting programs when peripherals are plugged in or media is inserted, and then sometimes it's not in the program itself either...ex: plug in a camera and iPhoto comes up but iPhoto has no setting for that. It's in Image Capture's preferences for some reason...who'd think to look there?), and I could definitely see my mom using it about as well as she uses Linux--meaning much much better (and more comfortably, I think) than she used Windows. The lack of right click is probably the one thing that would make a Mac better for her than Linux, but it's not worth spending that much on a computer she'd use so little when she can just ignore the right mouse button like she always has. I'm still not a big fan of OSX. Being able to drag anything into anywhere is pretty nice, and the Address Book is the best I've seen, but Aqua annoys me enough that I'll occasionally complain that Macs are only usable from the command line.
My last boyfriend picked me up at a LUG. OK really, we met at LUG. We didn't start dating (officially) until 2 weeks later.
Doesn't OSX hide the file extensions by default? Oh, and Apple Mail saves the messages in a proprietary format, so switching to Thunderbird or to non-OSX means your files go away (and remember, if you use POP they're probably not on the server anymore...if they are, they say you have 2000 unread messages). Correct me if I'm wrong. It's just what I've been told.
This place is turning into Hogwarts left, right, and center!
WTF are you talking about? The old versions do get uninstalled when new versions are installed, but it doesn't F with things so bad that you can't uninstall the new one and put the old one back. For me, that'd mean all I have to do is add --force-downgrade to dpkg when I reinstall the old version. Using apt the .debs stick around, but that's like when you leave all your setup.exe's sitting on your desktop. At least there's a setting in Synaptic to automatically remove them when installations finish and a command to remove them all at once if you don't want it to be automatic. Can't tell Windows to automatically delete all setup.exe's from the Desktop after they install.
Oh yeah, sorting, forgot that one. I don't use databases much. I don't do much that can't be done in vim, and if I need more a word processor is enough.
Queries, ability to make a more-user-friendly form for input...
Access is a databasing program. The OOo version being Base
Software as a literary work only subjects it to copyright, which is much better than the current system where there are now patents on math-in-the-form-of-software.
By putting prayer in schools, you would be removing freedom of religion, not adding it. "No, Mr. Steinberg, you cannot sit out our prayer to the Lord Jesus Christ. We pray in this school, and I don't care if you're 'Jewish' or whatever it is you said"? As it is, any kid can pray to whatever god(s)/goddess(es) they want to, if they want to. Want to say Grace before lunch? Go ahead. The teachers just aren't leading kids who most likely hold different beliefs through one set of prayers which only recognizes one of those beliefs.
Anyway, there were rapists, murderers, and shootings as long as there've been genitals, weapons, and weapons involving projectiles. How about we stop glorifying death and killing in movies, tv, music, games, and the news? Yes, I'm including the news. There's so much "go us! We killed 300 people...a bunch of them were probably just random unarmed bystanders, but they could've turned bad at any time, right? We rock for killing so many people!" in the coverage of this "war" on an idea. Someone should remind the people in charge that the invention of the Gutenberg Press heralded the end of the time when it was possible to kill an idea. Back on topic, though, ethics don't require religion at all. Everything about our lives has changed. We're much more stressed, and at a younger age, too. Stress can make people snap. Parents don't have time for their kids. Kids don't have time to be kids (too busy trying to get a 4.7 GPA and work 30 hr/wk while doing 5+hr/wk of community service in 9th grade to get into a good school). Do we blame the lack of prayer before driving for road rage?
Reminds me of the Mormon episode of South Park.
In the Church of Trinary.
Or, to sum it up in a diagram: http://wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007 -01-15%20--%20science%20vs%20faith.html
Isn't 24/7 normal hours for university libraries? I know my school's is 24/7, though 3 floors (2 during finals) close between 11pm and 7am.
Agreed though about LAN parties. That's just weird. Libraries are for quiet study. Maybe a public library might do that once in a while, but it'd probably be for a "the new Harry Potter book is coming out so let's play Harry Potter video games and watch Harry Potter movies!" thing.
I'm pretty sure it's tag soup before anyone puts anything in their profile. Oh, and all those *lovely* "unexpected errors" that within a week you learn to expect because they use ColdFusion on a site that requires something with better scalability.
1. Racism is the wrong word. It'd be xenophobia because being Chinese-American doesn't mean you understand a Chinese guy trying to pronounce technical words correctly in English.
2. The problem with accents is that they can be unintelligible. If your accent is really really thick, I might not know what word you're saying. It could be any of a number of things. They might be trying to name a kind of RAM. That'd be hard to understand. "PC2400? PC400? Peezee Thundered? What did they say?"
Some versions of the Windows client works with Crossover Office. To see which: http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/gr oup/?app_parent=2317;
I worked at a computer repair shop. The main tech and I could both handle Windows and Linux. The other guy would only say "Linux sucks. It actually works, so I can't get paid to fix it." I guess he never heard about Linux+ & LPIC certifications getting you money or about Unix sysadmins being paid more than Windows sysadmins (less common skill, get paid more).
Yeah, I guess you're right. Though I think it and eye-blink-patterns have been used to see if a baby was going to be gay or straight.
I'm not kidding either. Look: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/695142.stm
Straight women and gay men have index fingers that are about the same length or a little longer than their ring fingers. Lesbians and straight men have longer ring fingers. Like TFA says, it has to do with prenatal testosterone levels.
I was just really really amused when they said, basically, that Neo's a bug. He's an off-by-one error. Non-programmers wouldn't understand all the stuff about the little girl being unnecessary software and Neo being a bug, but it's kind of funny to see a face on those things.