NAh, you can't really expect a multifunction printer to just work. There are plenty of printers out there that do not follow and standard and need special drivers and so on.
What makes a fucking moron out of people is those printers generally have a sticker that says stop- run the instalation cd and follow instructions before connecting this printer. It's generally in the spot covering where the cable goes so you can't really miss it.
Why not? We have one of those impressive big multifunction printers at the office and all it takes is telling my mac "hey, there's a printer there" and it just works.
Whereas my colleague on windows told the computer where the printer is, then had to install the drivers anyway (it's a shared thingy) and after two hours of fiddling around simply gave up and let me print his stuff. Windows is a funny system like that
The fucking moron never installed any drivers, just plugged it in and expected it to work. (I still have the printer at home, working perfectly.
This isn't the fucking 1990's again! Printers and pretty much anything else is supposed to just work (tm) when you plug it in
but I'm wondering what the actual useful applications might be.
Quite simple actually, they tell you when you need to start closing stuff. See my computers often get laggy because I'm doing many things at once and it's useful to know who the culprit is. Did I forget to shut down a tab with flash in it, or did something hang in the background and made everything crap. Often with two cores you'll get a hung app and not notice for a few days before you tax the other core enough to start problems.
Oops. I'm sorry, I made the above comment with the presumption that I was responding to a mature adult. This laughable statement proves me wrong.
I'm a, to put it lightly, heavy twitter user. Just how much do you think I would have kept from my parents if it wasn't out of pure spite of not telling them because they ask too much?
So what about that, what if you have a child whom lets you catch them on small lies, but never on big ones?
Then you wonder why the hell your son is lying all the time and why you can't trust each other. I guess.
And the simple answer is that you're obviously sticking your nose in other people's (your son in this case) business.
Seriously, if my parents weren't so nosy they'd probably know a lot more about what I do day to day.
If they accepted non-specific info then they allowed you that privacy as a privilege for you out of their own free choice, which is different from you having a right to that privacy.
As for flat out lying, that's misbehavior, and prone to result in the grounding response when eventually discovered by parents either by asking around, or by covert tracking (covertly following you, or sending someone to covertly follow you and report on your whereabouts to the parents).
Yeah it was probably a covert social contract that they allowed me to give nonspecific info, but my info was very broad. I basically told them I wouldn't leave the city or go anywhere that requires money to take a ride
And about flat out lying, yes it's misbehaviour and yet I was never grounded, not even when I was constantly coming in 2+ hours late. It's very difficult to punish someone who simply doesn't give two shits. In fact if they were to call me while I was out and ask where I am, I'd usually just tell them despite having flat out lied beforehand, this naturally increased their "aw he can't lie to us" reflex and I could lie much more easily about the big things
So what about that, what if you have a child whom lets you catch them on small lies, but never on big ones?
If you think 13 is a magic age where children suddenly deserve privacy of their whereabouts, heck no.
That privilege is @ the parents' discretion. Usually people under age 17 must at all times tell their parents where exactly they are going, at what times. Typically parents just have to believe them, because it would be too inconvenient to have them watched at every moment, and well-behaved teens don't need it.
Why would people under the age of 17 have to have little locational privacy? Personally when I was 13-ish I simply stopped telling my parents where I am, usually through either flat out lying or through giving nonspecific information, simply felt I didn't want them quite knowing where I am. Besides, if there was any sort of trouble, I always had my cell phone with me so it wasn't like I magically vanished out of sight
However, nowadays, when I'm 21-ish my parents still keep pestering me about where I am and I _still_ don't tell them. Just goes to show parents never learn, ever.
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