Comment Re:Uh.... (Score 1) 271
She didn't have the last names of many of the friends I had met outside of school and only had the first names noted in her book, so I doubt the phone book was used.
She didn't have the last names of many of the friends I had met outside of school and only had the first names noted in her book, so I doubt the phone book was used.
What I also find is that behavior like your mom following your brother to his friends house, and my mom listening in on my phone calls whenever she could (picking up the other line elsewhere in the house when she saw the phone lit up). This had the chilling effect of causing my friends not to want to hang out with me. How could they trust me if my mom was on my case all the time? They didn't want to get in trouble themselves, and once my mom made a phone call "I heard my son and your son talking about sex with girls.." to someone else's parents, my social life would tank and I'd stop getting invited to things. No one wants to hang out with someone who's mom is going to get on their case.
My mom also had a habit of calling the other person's parents with any info she gleaned from listening in on conversations, with the intent on getting my friend in trouble for whatever reason. She was a very Catholic, puritanical person and not much in youth culture met with her approval, so you can imagine how frequent this was. She would exaggerate what she heard and attempt to paint the issue in the worst light possible for me and/or my friends.
So yeah, next time parents are wondering why the kid is so glued to the smartphone and not going out and making friends..maybe they should take a long hard look at themselves. And phase out euphemisms like "overprotective" with more accurate terminology like "controlling" and "living vicariously through children."
My parents claimed they encouraged me to be more social and go out more with my friends, just like yourself. Instead I spent time on IRC and MUDs.
The original article actually sort of reads like the story of my own childhood. I grew up in NYC under Broken Windows/Giuliani, when policing and keeping kids safe began to become at its peak.
My mom watched an awful lot of daytime TV and abduction dramas -- she was warning me about being abducted from stores when I was four years old, constantly, until I was around sixteen and it was ridiculous.
Of course, my mother being fed all these stories from the media, was very "overprotective." This meant she tried to listen in on my phone calls, would regularly search my room (not for drugs or anything
What happened here? Well, I became adept at cryptography and communicating privately -- and started working at an ISP around age 12. I also spent a lot of time at home because she would prevent me from going to any events with friends (concerts), sleeping over anyone's house, etc etc. Ostensibly, she said "get out of the house", but in reality her conditions were too restrictive to actually encourage it.
Once I got to college, I became a complete social butterfly. I threw big parties all the time and was extremely social, and I continue to be quite a social person today. I have little social media presence.
After college I used the computer skills I had gotten as a teenager to start my career, which I continue in.
It's not a sad story and it has a fine ending, but it totally matches the article. It's almost eerie reading it myself.
Many of them think the best upgrade for Office 2015 would be to make it look like Office 2010 instead of this forced Windows-8 style which looks clunky and a bit monochromatic.
If this is the executive responsible for this, I wonder who on earth picked him to be in charge of a site that needs to be used by a lot of computer-illiterate folks who don't like silly design changes!?!
"Fanny Bottom" and "then".
Don't you love it when someone tries to be the Grammar Nazi and makes a grammatical error of their own?
Especially when they are an AC!
Punctuation is applied within the quotation marks, so this should be written as "then." This is about as trivial an error as the semicolon misuse that you cite in the original post -- but you seem to care!
Basically I think apple is right, nobody wanting a good system would take an ssd over a spinning disk for their main drive.
Huh? Anyone wanting a good system would take an SSD over a platter-based disk! New computers like the MBP Retina or the T440 reach a significant bottleneck when using a standard HDD. I've seen users complain about their T430 or T440's with regular disks, only to throw in an SSD and they say "This computer is great!!."
So I can see why Apple forced it upon its users. When given the choice, many don't understand SSD and aren't willing to pay more for smaller disks. But it makes such a noticeable difference in speed to the consumer they've chosen to force it on folks.
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro