Comment Re:Some people are ineducable. (Score 1) 233
It's like asking society to help someone with no arms and no legs "get to an A+ level" in juggling.
Possibly not juggling. But would you accept a gymnast with no legs?
It's like asking society to help someone with no arms and no legs "get to an A+ level" in juggling.
Possibly not juggling. But would you accept a gymnast with no legs?
employers who post literally impossible qualifications (5 years experience in a 3 year old technology for example)
Are you sure they aren't trying to poach someone who worked at the company producing the technology during the two years before release?
it's inconvenient to schedule your transport around someone else's timetable and path
Bingo. There are a lot of cities where the number of lines operating on Sundays or major holidays is a big fat goose egg (zero). So riders have to schedule their lives around 36 to 60 hour scheduled downtimes.
EVs are exempt from this ban since they don't emit anything.
Electric vehicles themselves do not emit, but they cause power plants to emit.
And I still remember car being completely banned on a Sunday
That sounds backwards. Where I live, public transportation is "completely banned on a Sunday". (Source: fwcitilink.com)
There's only been 3 reasons since Win2000 to actually upgrade
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3. You buy new mobo and find out they didn't bother writing drivers for the older versions of Windows for it.
Bingo. The new MacBook ships with Windows 8 drivers.
If they had stuck with Xenix we may not have ended bottom lip deep in a malware swamp
Could you explain how that might not have happened? Xenix (which became SCO OpenServer) was just Microsoft's port of AT&T UNIX to PCs. UNIX is just as vulnerable to malware as Windows: if you trick the user into elevating to install something, something will be installed.
How can you have 1.5 children per household?
2 children in one household and 1 in another. Even so, I wonder how it felt for photographer Kevin Michael Connolly or acrobat Jennifer Bricker or Jeanie Tomaini or plenty of others to grow up as the
responses that included the words "M$"
"M$" looks like a string variable in old-skool line-numbered BASIC, and Microsoft started out publishing BASIC interpreters. Could "M$" mean "The company should have stuck to BASIC and not branched into microcomputer operating systems"?
[Kids these days] have pizza, computer games, cool shoes, and a parent that drives them everywhere.
Without a parent to drive them, how else are they supposed to get anywhere? A lot of places have pitiful public transport or none at all.
while you may have to move away from Arkansas to where the jobs are
Which is why high schools need to start teaching home economics again. If people have to move away from parents before finding work, they'll need to learn to live on their own. And even then, where should a student fresh out of school find the cash to support himself during a move and job search?
Visualize Billy's, Tammy's and Chris's future debt
I can visualize a big fat goose egg. So can anyone else familiar with Dave Ramsey's techniques.
Not everybody cares about "community mods." [...] I play chess
Then let me try a chess analogy. The forced-vanilla environment of the consoles is like not being able to agree with your opponent to randomize the starting position or use experimental pieces.
Tetris is already a thing, and runs fine anywhere.
Recent court rulings have threatened that.
if you want a laptop, I'm afraid your options in the assemble-your-own department are somewhat lacking
There's no need to fear; MSI is here.
So why not avoid all the BS and buy a portable from a manufacturer which actually specializes in building Linux machines?
So who makes an affordable laptop PC that runs multi-window Linux? Stock Android isn't multi-window, as Android's CDD relies on a window management policy of all maximized all the time. And last time I checked, companies you mentioned charge an Apple premium and lack a variety of sizes. System76 doesn't have anything smaller than 14 inches, and even ZaReason doesn't have a 10 or 11 inch model. This makes Linux look big and clunky.
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