Like the menfolk, they fretted about money, they scrimped and made-do. But, when the pay stopped coming in, they were not the ones, who had failed. Nor did they have to go to war, and that seemed to me a blesses fact. By comparison...........mothers.
it's the first time I've really had to think seriously about installing win7. it's because a company that interviewed me wants me to do a tech test that requires VS2013 and IIS and stuff
requiring win7 or win8
i've already got 2 PCs, a linux and WinXP one. i wish they could be 2 different flavours of Linux
> Like the menfolk, they fretted about money, they scrimped and made-do. But, when the pay stopped coming in, they were not the ones, who had failed. Nor did they have to go to war, and that seemed to me a blesses fact. By comparison with the narrow, ironclad days of fathers, there was an expansiveness, I thought, in the days of mothers.
Fathers either have to work full time in a regular factory or office, or they have to go to war. Those things include an "ironclad" workday or schedule.
i shy away from anything with the word "upgrade" in
i always install OSes fresh, not upgrade them
kind of annoying that Ultimate is that much more expensive, it has one or two things I might find useful like bitlocker drive encryption and Aero remoting
and it's always there in the back of my head that the ONLY reason this restriction is there is because MS purposely crippled their OS. they could've written the bits differently to allow extra stuff for the lower priced versions. it's like a furniture maker making a luxury chair, then damaging it less if the customer pays more
There once was a man without hope All he heard people say was “nope” “You’re not wanted here” “Please just disappear” Now he’s dead at the end of a rope
@Jez Wrong analogy. A carmaker produces a model which has several variations, a basic version and some more luxury versions. You're arguing that just because the basic version's frame has the bolt holes for the larger engine, and the dashboard has cutouts for the moonroof switch, the basic version is a "crippled" luxury car.
@MετάEd with a car, there's actually extra physical work and materials going into the luxury version, though. with an OS, it's an equal amount of work to press the "luxury version" bits as it is to press the "basic version" bits
@Jez That's not right. It took a certain number of programmer hours to develop those "luxury" features. You don't want to pay for the extra work? You don't get the feature. The fact that the disabled bits are there on the disk may set your teeth on edge, but that is on you, not on the manufacturer.
It's not fair for you to count just the cost of pressing the disk and discount the cost of making the luxury software.
@MετάEd i understand that but, as you said, the disabled bits are there (or the required bits are not there)
once the sunk cost has been made in developing the features, it just seems wrong to then disable them for no reason other than marketing
i'm not necessarily saying i'm right, but the way my brain works, it just irritates me that they could be making every version have all the features just as easily
If you had your way, then everyone would have to pay for the luxury features for Microsoft to recoup the cost of developing it. That's not fair to the people who don't need those features and don't want to pay for them.
You would end up making basic Windows cost more for eveyrone.
I did not realize__because such things were spoken of__how often women suffered from men's bullying. I did learn about the wretchedness of abandoned wives, single mothers,widows; but i also learned about the wretchedness of lone man.
Example: Linux has a monopoly on the free-software OS world. The consequence of this is that all the competing free-software OSes are 2nd-class or worse citizens.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Android does not have a near monopoly on the smartphone. Android is leading the competition on the smartphone. That is completely different.
@IceGirl Is this from a book? Those should be dashes, like — or –. Dashes are used to mark off something that is an aside, not part of the main thing you want to say.
@Cerberus And if suddenly, tomorrow, people discovered that Google was really really evil and they all wanted to switch to a different fork of Android, that would at least be feasible, unlike if everyone wanted to ditch Windows for Linux
I used to be curious about what the other sex feels, but decided I would never really know. Even if your consciousness were teleported (?) into a woman's body, you wouldn't really know because the biggest difference is in the actual consciousness itself. Everything else is just window dressing.
I did not realize__because such things were spoken of__how often women suffered from men's bullying. I did learn about the wretchedness of abandoned wives, single mothers,widows; but i also learned about the wretchedness of lone man.
I do not understand "because such things were spoken of". I would expect "because such things were not spoken of".
@Cerberus No, but I might if it transpired that Google was shitting on their customers and I wanted to switch. Unlike in 1998 when Microsoft was shitting on their customers and lots of people wanted to switch but there was nothing to switch TO.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Sure, it's somewhat easier. But still not that easy, because Google has a true monopoly on the Play Store, and the Play Store is intimately linked to Android for most people.
@Cerberus Also I might buy any number of android devices without gapps if they were not intended to be internet terminals. I.e. if they didn't need gapps.
@IceGirl You can post a long text, but your question should be a bit more specific, you should mention what part you don't understand, or why you think one sentence contradicts another sentence—or whatever the problem is.
@Cerberus The play store does not have a monopoly on android app distribution though, and it would be easy for people to switch to a new one if there was motivation to do so.
@MετάEd no, no not Moroni. You're thinking of that other Abrahamic fan fiction from the late 19th c by a guy who died from syphilis.
@MετάEd No no, not a failed marine. You're thinking of that questionable food source made from brewer's yeast scraped from the bottom of a beer barrel.
So I was baffled when the women at college accused me and my sex of having cornered the world's pleasures. I think something like my bafflement has been felt by other boys ( and by girls as well) who grew up in dirt-poor farm country, in mining country, in black ghettos, in Hispanic barrios, in the shadows of factories, in Third world nations__any place where the fate of men is as grim and bleak as the fate of women.Toilers and warriors.
continue of above sentence is:I realize now how ancient these identities are, how deep the tug they exert on men, the undertow of a thousand generations.
@IceGirl That is indeed a bit odd. The women say that men have all the pleasures, but (some?) girls who grew up in poor families think this is not true.
Perhaps because those girls from poor background have seen how the boys in their own families also had it rough? The women in college apparently do not know this.
@IceGirl Living under the shadow of a factory is a metaphor for having your life dominated by what happens in the factory, so it means in this case that you spend your life working in the factory. Which is no fun.
Perhaps the writers literally means poor neighbourhoods near factories, where poor factory workers live.
"Tug" is a bit odd, because it suggests some sort of attraction, as if men wanted to toil.
@IceGirl That is a metaphor: the "hidden stream" that has been shaped by a thousand generations, or that has been active for a thousand generations. What it means is a little bit vague, but something like "a strong and ancient aspect of the nature of men".
This is what happens if you can't get away from the Ukrainian riot police.
Endless streams of policemen will pass by when you're lying still on the ground, and every man will hit you with his truncheon.
I see only one policemen trying to push his colleagues away when they keep hitting the man on the ground, but the next twenty to pass hit him anyway, after the protective policeman is gone.
But apparently they merely closed them in, they didn't attack them. He was most probably not protesting, just standing somewhere else with a group of bystanders, not in the direction of the protests.
@badass The people are rioting because they want in the EU.
I don't see how that matters. The police want the symbols of the demonstration to not be there. They take them away and/or destroy them, but the difference is not very important to them or to me.
Right. Your headline suggests that the police have deliberately taken and destroyed the flag. Which I said was a nice bit of propaganda on your part. The only problem I have is when you said that it is true.
@badass You can never say what is. Nobody has the time. You can only make a general statement about what approximately is. So fuzzy logic applies: no statements about the real world are perfectly true.
@MετάEd I honestly still don't get what's "superficially true but deeply false" about saying the Ukrainian riot police were tearing apart that flag. Maybe "tear apart" is more forceful than strictly necessary. I could have said "tug at" or "damage", but I don't see how that makes much of a difference—so much, in fact, that you would call it "deeply false".
Does the underlying situation change at all?
The police are trying to break up the protests, violently.
@Cerberus I still say it's a great headline. Anybody whose personality leads them to feel offended when the EU flag is desecrated will be offended by the photo, when guided by your headline.
Who would be offended at that, compared to the other things the riot police do? "Desacrated" is not a word that would seem appropriate for the EU flag.
That flag pales in comparison to what you saw in that last video: beating the same person again and again, taking away and destroying their phones, firing tear-gas grenades at people...
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by educator Neil Postman. The book's origins lay in a talk Postman gave to the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1984. He was participating in a panel on Orwell's 1984 and the contemporary world. In the introduction to his book, Postman said that the contemporary world was better reflected by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, whose public was oppressed by their addiction to amusement, than by Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, where they were oppressed by state control.
It has been translated into eight language...
(Oh, it's also interesting how a policeman in that video, does an air kick into a protester's back as he is trying to walk away after having been beaten up.)
> Rational argument, integral to print typography, is militated against by the medium of television [...]. Owing to this shortcoming, politics and religion are diluted, and 'news of the day' becomes a packaged commodity. Television de-emphasises the quality of information in favour of satisfying the far-reaching needs of entertainment, by which information is encumbered and to which it is subordinate.