Comment Re:Fantastic! (Score 1) 523
I was made to learn cursive back in the 50s and hated every second of it. I was told I was a "bad person" because my cursive wasn't neat enough.
$200 for the 40-year old paper includes membership. Non-members get the paper for $15. Can you please not misrepresent?
Not that I'm defending this. The article should be free, and $15 is way too much (even the 24-hour "rental" for $3 is too much). But it isn't $200.
I'll politely disagree. I've been using Linux Mint Mate for a number of years with great satisfaction, doing anything from writing novels to hacking Lisp code to maintaining my websites. I don't mind the Chrome UI, but if I did, there would be other choices, such as Pale Moon.
I watch people struggle with Windows 8 and I'm glad I'm not there.
That's because people tend to be loud if they don't like something but tend not to say much if they either like it or don't care.
Ah, yes, the famous "silent majority."
Heh. I still use RCS
My point? Fit the tool to the job. RCS is old and doesn't scale well, but what I'm doing only requires something simple and straightforward. CVS, SVN, GIT --- all are overkill for me.
The tradition was, in order to prevent the divine name being pronounced by accident, that the vowels for "adonai" were placed in the letters of the tetragrammaton. If you read that as written it sounds like "yehovah". As I understand it, a dumb Middle-Ages Christian scribe transcribed this as-is without knowing the background, with a "J" which sounds like "Y" in German. In English that got pronounced as "Jehovah."
So the JWs got it completely wrong. Their religion is named after a nonsense word due to a scribal error. But none of them seem to know it. A couple of times when they've come calling, I've asked them if they know the origin of the word "Jehovah" and I get blank stares.
I think you need to have confidence in yourself and believe that you can do something. But then you need to do the actual work, solve the problems, work for success. To me, there is a difference between fantasizing about success and believing in your ability to achieve it.
In other words, I know I can do X. But to do it, I must do A, B, C, D, and overcome obstacles I, II, III, and IV. That's positive thinking combined with realism and the willingness to do what you have to do.
I guess this article is here because I'm supposed to care what Ballmer thinks, or that his ravings are somehow important or influential.
Sorry, but I don't, and they're not.
I question whether most employers really want critical thinkers. What they really want are sheep. Yes, there are exceptions, but by and large, what's really wanted in Corporate America?
And are employers willing to pay for critical thinkers? I don't think so.
The suggestion that "being big enough to cause a measurable shift in earth's gravity" is something worthy of note is the anti science idiocy. This is not something that matters.
You don't understand. It is politically correct to tie this to global warming.
I've at times put forward this very simple argument.
Take someone who is, for whatever reason, fully grown but only four feet tall. This person can practice and practice at basketball, and maybe become very good at it, but is not going to be the center on an NBA team. 10,000 hours of practice won't make him tall enough to be competitive.
I think it's politically correct to say that "anyone can be anything they want if they work hard enough" but it simply isn't true, and TFA says as much.
People are different as one look at a crowd will instantly show you. And that's just fine as long as you don't start saying that these differences justify limiting or increasing basic human rights because of those differences.
Some people are smarter than others. Some people are taller than others. Some people are better at music than others. What else is new?
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
