Comment Re:Brake Pedal (Score 1) 262
We can't all live in Minnesota.
Not sure how you got Minnesota from my username or previous comments. I live in Utah and go over a mountain everyday in my commute.
We can't all live in Minnesota.
Not sure how you got Minnesota from my username or previous comments. I live in Utah and go over a mountain everyday in my commute.
As a bonus, brake pads might last you 60 or 70 thousand miles.
I actually had brake pads last 90k on my current car. Learn how to properly decelerate.
My first name has at least 3 spellings, and mine is the least common of them. My last name has 3 or 4 that I can think of. That's a lot of variations on my name. Surely, one of those is a terrorist!
There are 86 common variations of my surname. I know that there individuals with my same first name with 5 of those variations, plus an additional three who use my exact surname. Mistaken identity is fun!
ever try 'em in your coffee? a very small amount is pretty tasty.
Alas, I don't drink coffee for religious reasons, but I would imagine it's tasty indeed. I do like peppers in chocolate (and the darker the chocolate the better).
I can handle spicy (I LOVE habaneros), but I need flavor to go with the heat. A habanero pepper has a fruity flavor, while cayenne and ghost peppers just bring the heat.
I have never seen a Blu-Ray disk, and I am not too sure anyone I know has. You must live in the USA (not a device for connecting hardware).
The correct capitalization is Blu-ray. Also, are we going to argue the difference between disk and disc? Most (US) dictionaries list them as being the same. A disk can be defined as any thin, flat, circular plate or object or (when talking computers) any of several types of media consisting of thin, round plates of plastic or metal, used for external storage (magnetic disk, floppy disk, optical disk) (taken from dictionary.com). Admittedly, the BDA does use disc to refer to the media.
I hated homework. I would glance over the assigned reading, do a couple of the assigned problems, but only complete the entire homework if it was something I didn't immediately grasp. School was about education, not some dumb grade, but my test scores ensured me an A- or B+ in most classes. My parents called me Encyclopedia Brown because of the ease I could learn and recall things. One regret is that my schools didn't teach proper English, but rather the local Pidgin. To this day I have to stop and think when communicating in American English. I picked up tons of vocabulary from the books I devoured, but often mess up pronunciation.
Hawaii has two official languages (English and Hawaiian), but 80% of the population speaks "Pidgin" (Hawaiian Creole English) and fewer than 4% are fluent in Hawaiian. In Hawaii's case, "official language" means that all official publications are available in these two languages (people specify which one they want, so as to not make the manual twice as thick, for example). Nothing prevents people from speaking Tongan, Samoan, Japanese, or Pidgin in everyday life. Nothing says that only Hawaiian and English are acceptable for store signage. Nothing says that private entities (including stores) have to make everything available in these languages. Indeed, only limited Hawaiian is taught in our regular schools (by the fourth grade I could count to ten and say the primary and secondary colors). What Hawaiian I know is purely by luck that it was preserved in Pidgin.
In the UK almost every plan seems to come with an unusuablly high or unlimited amount of SMS anyway which is still cheaper than the $1 a year Whatsapp costs.
I use it because I have that one friend who also insists on using it and nothing else. Maybe I should just stop speaking to him and save myself $1 a year.
The only actual benefit I can see to it is for images which are cheaper and seem to work more reliably than MMS.
I'm in the US, but I need to message people in Brazil, England, and China. International SMS is ridiculously expensive. Not everyone has Facebook or Skype, so WhatAapp makes sense if I want to chat and not pay outrageous per-minute voice calls.
How do you get a 3 for Insightful? You are attacking the AC, which was me by the way. Spineless fairy? Special snowflake? Can't handle criticism? Elect politicians who'd love to stamp out free speech? Arguments without merit? Look in the mirror and tell me what you see. Wow. We are talking about a user interface. It works for some but not for others. I stated that it was nice to give the users the ability to choose between the two. What is the big deal? This is not some life or death situation. It is just a personal preference. I do like change and am willing to try new interfaces. I have used most of them over the past 20 years. I just happen to like Unity. And the global menu is no big deal to me anymore. That is all I was saying. You, sir, went off the deep end with your response.
I would have made the same arguments epyT-R did whether you post as AC or under your own name. If you make baseless accusations that anyone who doesn't believe as you do is a right-wing highly conservative Luddite, then you've lost your right to complain when answered in kind. Resistance to change isn't limited to any political party. You just used a variant of the Godwin argument.
I always thought linux users were not afraid of change and welcomed the new. Sometimes I think some linux users are a bunch of luddites with strong right wing conservative leanings. Who would have thought.
How does this one preference (each app having its own menu, instead of a single global menu) indicate any political leaning?
ology means the study of, so people might think that astrology is the study of stars. Not many people are familiar with nomos (the arrangement of). These two things have only relatively recently (17th century) split.
Goodbye to the ##altslashdot crowd, and thanks for all the fish...
Maybe now the rest of us who do not see Beta as the end of the world, but rather as an honest attempt to bring Slashdot into the mobile touchscreen 21st century, can enjoy our articles in peace...
Perhaps Dice could be smart about who's on a mobile device or tablet instead of forcing one interface on all platforms? That's the biggest complaint against Unity and Windows 8. A laptop or desktop with keyboard and mouse is vastly different from a mobile device or tablet with limited screen real estate and touch screen input.
What puzzles me is the fervor with which the article repeats the word "Obama", even where they have to rather stretch grammatical rules to work it in ("high-ranking President Barack Obama administration officials spent years covering it up." Nice to know which President Obama: the high-ranking one, not the low-ranking President Obama.).
This started in 2004, five years before Obama took office in 2009. So I'd say that they ought to give Bush a bit of the blame; at least, say, for the first five years spent covering it up.
Um, it's saying high-ranking officials in the Obama administration, not that President Obama is high-ranking. This was a faux-pas regardless of the political party involved (is the FBI linked to a particular party?).
lengthy doesn't mean well thought out. It's rife with logical fallacies, pretentious BS, and flat out bad thinking.
I normally ignore the comments about Beta - I come to
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
