Comment Re:Arsehole (Score 1) 1051
"Yeah, Linus! As in, father of FOSS? Mt. Linux? Don't f*ck with me or I'll shove a penguin up your ass! LINUS!"
The ribbon UI is so awesome, that Visual Studio doesn't have it (thank God) So the people who actually *write Microsoft software* don't like the ribbon.
So there's that.
When notepad gets a ribbon -- that's when I start to have deep concern for Microsoft's design choices.
The fact that the "magic button" to close full screen apps is an archaic key combo from windows 3.1 is a key indicator of how bad this interface is. I mean alt -f4 is a great shortcut key, but for that to be the great "answer " for closing full screen apps. Yes, I count that as a fail.
How is alt-f4 an 'archaic fail'...? From windows 3.1 all the way up to windows 8, you can control everything/anything, keyboard only; fairly impressive from a design standpoint. Few other GUI based OSes can claim this long standing keyboard only functionality. You forget that circa windows 3.1 there weren't standardized input/mouse drivers, it was often a requirement to know how to operate the OS entirely from a select set of standardized keyboard types. If you were lucky enough to learn windows 3.1 using a keyboard, you should be thankful that they haven't changed the shortcuts almost 20 years later.
YouTube hosts LOTS of cat videos, maybe enough even to influence the number of cat purchases by animal lovers.
Remember, this is the same site that shows ADS before the TRAILER -- I wouldn't exactly say they have their priorities in order for box office revenue (or for any of their advertisers for that matter).
Well, if you happen to live in one of the larger countries (China, Canada, the US, etc.) it would also help intranational businesses. And commuters. And shoppers near the zone boundaries.
It's always work keeping track of the difference between equal creation, and equal importance to a given entity. Simply because they are equal does not mean they are equally important to me. For instance, given the choice between saving the lives of two people unknown to me, and one of my sisters, my sister will get my choice. Without regrets. She's more important to me than any random two fellow-citizens. By the same token, my fellow citizens are worth more to me than non-citizens. Probably not in a two-to-one ratio, but there still exists a difference.
Does that mean that I think my sisters are 'more equal' than others? No. It means that I personally place more value on them; not that they are better in any way. Valuing different people differently is both inevitable and proper. It's inevitable, because it's hard-wired into our brains to split the world into progressively smaller groups of more import. It's proper, as it's necessary to generate a nurturing environment for kids in most cases. People simply won't give as much for strangers as they will for their own kids. Preferential treatment allows their kids to grow up well, even if others are suffering.
Because nationalism is obviously wrong? Despite being a fairly popular viewpoint?
Come out of your bubble. While cosmopolitanism is common these days, it isn't necessarily any more right than nationalism. They both have downsides.
With the insignificant downside that government decides who goes to college... Sorry. Live free or die.
From personal experience, I can say this isn't true of all students. I worked nearly a full time job ~30 hours a week, commuted 1 hour each way to school, and still graduated with three degrees in four years. I can't be the only one who can do that; it's just that most people really don't begin tapping their potential.
The biggest problem with this is that people can't count. Seriously, get a half dozen people around a table, give'em each a sheet of paper, and swear them to silence. Pass out about a hundred black-eyed peas, and the same number dried peas, mixed. Allow each person to count them, marking them down on a sheet of paper.
The numbers will all be different by 2-3. That's the problem with people. Human-dependent measurement is inherently flawed. It's just cheap and straightforward. A proper, machine counter (maybe scantronics or similar) is much more reliable. But still needs audited...
I should note that I don't find ANY media completely credible. They all, Glenn Beck and MSNBC included, tend to tiwst true info to make a point. Which just means they require critical thinking; a skill rare, but useful.
Gently now... back up a bit and look at it. Persecution has occurred historically on the basis of race, creed, religion and ideology. Why do you fixate on one of these, rather than say that folks are inclined to persecute each other with the slimmest of reasons? Recall that secular societies have persecuted people as well. It seems as unlikely that religion is the cause of the persecution than that race is the cause of ethnic persecution.
So why villianize someone, linking them to atrocities they never supported, simply because they share a few beliefs with the perpetrators? Seriously, get a grip. I don't blame random Asians for the Virginia Tech shootings, Muslims for the 9/11 bombings, or random communists for the Soviet mass killings. Nor should you; it isn't rational or just.
Sorry, this was primarily intended as a joke... If you were a spy and either a sportsman or pretending to be one, you might carry a gun recreationally.
Nice story about the laptop+webcam. Real classy...
This is why the US has more black men in chains today than it ever had under slavery.
Well, that and population growth... You will notice that the percentage is down quite a bit, I trust?
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.