Comment Re:FUCK THIS BRING BACK WIDE SLASHDOT! (Score 1) 133
He/she may or may not be referring to the slashdot beta page (which I for one don't like).
He/she may or may not be referring to the slashdot beta page (which I for one don't like).
I don't see what the big deal is with the ribbon. It seems like they just took vertical menus that mainly consisted of words and flipped them 90 degrees horizontal (and put more emphasis on pictorals) so it had more of tabbed look. It's really not that. Lots of web sites etc. use that tabbed way of navigation and it seems fine.
Also, for the record, there is way to complete turn off the ribbon and bring back the old vertical menus.
It occurred to me one to my science classes in high school had us read Jurassic Park. Seems like old Michael Crichton knew how to include interesting details in that book and it's no a bad book to boot.
How long before all our water is alcohol?
Or is this a reference to something else?
I disagree with the idea that the prequels could only be a fill-in-the blank affair: the same could have been said for the LotRs trilogy but it still managed to be turned into something enjoyable with near-universal appeal (Pippen and Merry seem to have their own following, for instance) even though whether you read the book(s) or not the ending seemed like a fore-gone conclusion.
I think everybody should make at least $25 an hour. Anything less and they're not making enough to support themselves in American society, and the rest of us -- government -- are going to have to make up the difference between what their employer is paying them and what they need to survive.
Wow, $25 would be nice. I have disagree with you though on the supporting yourself on anything less: For a whole year I was working at $15/hour in california where it's not exactly cheap. In fact I had a 100 mile round trip so my weekly gas costs was around ~$350 (an old car getting around 25MPG). I was also paying ~$300/month for my own health insurance, paying for car insurance, California's income tax... Actually a smart phone too so that was another $75/month.
Not only was I able to live on that wage I was actually making money. Just have to decide what's important and what isn't. Prioritize. At $25/hour I'd feel like I was living like one of those UAE princes I hear about. But I for one look forward to this proposed socialist utopia.
VBScript still works, even in HTML5-based applications. Just sayin.
I can think of at least two examples of this: Untangle and Asterisk. Asterisk seems to have the right idea with free versus supported models.Maybe one of those two could be a model? There's also Redhat with their...would clone be the right word?... unofficial community version, CentOS. I've heard stories of customers with mixed RHEL/CentOS environments getting indirect support from redhat with a CentOS issue.
If I could rate this up I would. I think this is a very well-written post.
Never did quite get used to Esri Dax...
Hard to believe Picard is winning this one. I assume because fewer and fewer slashdotters bother to go back and watch TOS (damn kids). And it is rather dated.
I just happened to recently finish watching DS9 on Netflix a few days ago (had never seen it straight through before). I'm not sure I would say Sisko was a bad captain, the show was just written so differently it was hard to express in what way he was really leading...or commanding. I don't think they ever got the chewing-out scenes perfected for example.
TNG on the other hand had Picard who could stare down and out-curse any number of Klingons towering over him. With Sisko it just seemed like stuff happened around him and he was along for the ride. Or maybe that was just my perception.
On a semi-related note, I think DS9 is way under-rated as a series. Try to watch it all the way through while not drawing comparisons to TNG or Babylon 5...you might like it...
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