ok then, would you graciously accept "junior" prepended to your job title? I mean, it's just a title, right?

I know personally, I dont hear a thing if im concentrating on copying something down from a board correctly. I also write quite slowly and it makes my hand cramp, so if I'm trying to get things written down before they're taken off the board I do not have the opportunity to think about what I'm writing.

take those facts and apply them to your lectures, and all I get out of them is hand written notes that I then have to go back and try to teach to myself. why exactly is this any better than me not showing up and studying of your pre-prepared notes? I'm not advocating not showing up, but what you're forcing upon students like me is no better than what you seem to be so against.

personally, when I go to a lecture I want to listen, think and ask questions. taking notes prevents all of that. by trying to force those with no concentration to learn by ROTE, you're forcing EVERYONE to sit and take notes and you're preventing many students from learning in the manners they find efficient. some people learn by seeing, others by hearing. others by doing. on the scale of learning efficiency, ROTE comes in pretty fucking low.

I'm only a jr software dev but I make more money than that before lunch each day. Are you still at uni or something?

with things moving away from p2p and back to the client-server model, the number of people open to lawsuits drops dramatically. downloaders are no longer forced to upload, so they're no longer "making available", the the most they can be realistically charged with is making one copy.

WTF? Just how dumb are the devs you work with, and why hasn't working with them driven you to quit and find a job somewhere not staffed by morons?

Not noscript, I did that once and I got bollocked for that a bit because 'using the web was too hard as he had to press buttons every site he went on', the guy was a real pleb but nevermind

no, you got bollocked because noscript is shit. Adblock is a blacklist that comes with a nice choice of subscriptions, noscript is a shitty whitelist that comes with no option of preconfiguring commonly required scripts, and to top it off noscript is written by an untrustworthy dipshit who has a history of trying to fuck with users adblock settings for his own gain and spamming his site with the daily updates.

Browsing the web today with no scripts is akin to browsing with no images. Sure, it's possible but the experience is shit. I wish someone would put out a competitor to noscript that worked on the blacklist model, they'd take over in an instant. Can you imagine how much people would hate adblock if it was a whitelist and you had to add exceptions for every site you visited in order to see any content? Try it out, remove your subscriptions, add a block everything rule and start browsing the web. Then come back and claim that guy was a pleb because browsing like that is a pain in the ass. He may have been a pleb for other reasons, but he wasn't wrong about noscript

I interpret that statement (with knowledge of the shit sony typically spins) that their windows and mac software will "enable the user to read PDF, Word, BBeB and other text files on the Reader". in other words, it's going to do a conversion and look just as shitty as the kindle version amazon did for you. perhaps it's poorly worded and the device actually supports those formats natively... but this is sony we are talking about so I doubt it

I'm not convinced that's the right question. whether it is man-made or just natural climate cycles, it still looks like it's on track to fuck shit up and cause major problems for us in the future (seas rising and all that jazz).

the real question is can we do anything to stop it.

if reading things in cursive was beneficial, we'd all be using cursive fonts all over the place on computers. I dont think I've seen anyone use a cursive font on a computer that made things better in any way ever, so I can only conclude that reading cursive sucks compared to a nice clean (preferably san serif) font.

now there's the personal preference aspect, that you may prefer to hand write something; but having established that reading cursive is inferior to pretty much any decent font, you're not doing anyone any favors by opting to handwrite things.

in short, good riddance.

hey, is there some way I can get in contact with you? I've been using your iphone'ized /. for a while, and found some inspiration to spend a few hours tonight making some changes to the source that I figure might be worth sending back your way. drop me an email: sootman.lucas_ at xoxy dot net

bullshit. Ares2 was doing what he's supposed to do, blocking ads. people use adblock because they dont want to see ads. the slimebag running noscript was being a cocksucker trying to subvert the users of adblock's wishes so they'd see his ads and he'd make money from the ridiculous number of do-nothing updates he releases that send users to his site. if users wanted to make an exception for noscript's ads for whatever reason, they'd do it themselves. that is not noscript's decision to make.

this doesnt really affect me since I dont use noscript, because when I did it just found it to be nagware. it seemed like everytime I restarted firefox it was updating and sending me to their site, but this latest behavior from the developer doesnt surprise me in the least

to flip your observation, are you honestly claiming that an OS's usability wouldnt go down the toilet if they replaced all the widgets with blinking fluorescent colours? usability and "eye candy" or look and feel are a lot more deeply intertwined than you're trying to portray them as

OMG, splitting a tweet into multiple sms's would be unthinkable! oh the horror!

I cant stand halogen lighting for this very reason; I'm quite sensitive to the heat they produce. other people dont even seem to notice, but I feel the heat from even the small downlight ones. my parents redid their house with halogen downlights; maybe if they were somewhere cold I would appreciate it, but where they live is on average 30-35C so halogen bulbs just meant I would rather sit in the dark and than have the lights on. if you want heat, I'm sure a ceramic heater would be more efficient than halogen bulbs anyway

no, the USA has Amazon. like so many other sites involving music, people outside of the USA get shafted