@Daid said:
I login on my desktop machine as root, even on KDE. I'm the only user, if I mess up I can fix it, and I don't get the "I cannot let you do that Dave" messages.
Did you start out life as a Windows user?
@Daid said:
I login on my desktop machine as root, even on KDE. I'm the only user, if I mess up I can fix it, and I don't get the "I cannot let you do that Dave" messages.
Did you start out life as a Windows user?
Call it a case of cultural differences:
Here in the UK, pupils completing their A-levels are expected to apply for their Univeristy places so as to begin their courses in the next academic year (i.e. 3-4 months after the A-Level exams), or to take a single "gap year" to explore the world and/or raise a little cash.
Had I not stated my degree immediately following my A-levels, I would have fallen foul of changes to the system of University fees and the loans/grants available to cover them. Making full use of any interest free overdraft facility is encouraged. Attempting to stay above £0 when such a facility is available to me would be foolish. The fact that it is interest free means that my real-terms debt will shrink in line with inflation.
This is also ignoring the Student Loans system of the UK: I already have over £10K of debt in a very-low-interest loan, which tracks the goverment's claimed current rate of inflation. This has been given to me in intstallments to cover living expenses, rent etc. This will be paid back when I start earning £15K/annum, and even then I will only be obliged to pay 9% of any income I earn over that £15K threshold. This is how being a student works in the UK: Almost every student is in the same situation as I.
I have carefully financially planned the next few years, and am careful not to make stupid purchases. By borrowing now I am maximising the time I will spend earning at graduate rates vs McJob rates.
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@Emyr said:
when my balance is £0, I feel like I have £1500.Excellent. How fiscally responsible.
So ya-boo to you too.
@morbiuswilters said:
plz send me the codez for imaginary monies!
Codez:
HAI
CAN HAZ UNICORS?
IM IN A HSBC:
CAN HAZ STOODUNT AKOUNT?
VISIBLE "HAZ MONIEZ!"
KTHXBAI
I'm approaching the end of my BSc ComSc at Cardiff, and so far, not too much of it has seemed WTFy.
First year module, both semesters: Java and Algorithms, Textpad being the "editor of choice"... Eclipse/Netbeans are both available, although I tend to use any code-colouring-capable editor on Linux so I know how it's doing everything if anything even goes wrong.
Noone's ever mentioned SVN, although a fellow student does use it, and taught me how to use ant in return for php and css help :-)
C and C++ were both taught in the same second year "Object Oriented Methods" module, in which most of the homework, and the coursework, involved implementing the same task in C, C++ and Java, and commenting on the various opporunities for WTFery.
@CodeSimian said:
@morbiuswilters said:
I was waiting for someone to chime in with Kelvin. Yes, a system where freezing is 273.15 degrees is absolutely easy for people to work with!I think I said it makes more sense from a scientific standpoint, not that it was easier to work with for regular people. Or do you not see the value in being able to say: x is y times as big as z? How would you like it if your bank account's "zero point" was -273.15 USD, meaning "no debits or credits"?
As a student, I have a £1500 interest-free overdraft facility. Therefore in real day-to-day terms, when my balance is £0, I feel like I have £1500. Of course, this is the difference between "Balance" and "Available Funds". cf celsius and kelvin.
@CodeSimian said:
Nonsense, I personally know 2 guys who gouged their own eyes out after using Vista for 5 minutes!
Did they survive? If not, candidates for the Darwin Awards.
@CodeSimian said:
What if someone wants to browse this site on a handheld device?
I've tried before, and IE on my Samsung i600 (aka BlackJack, runs WindowsMobile5) is incapable of dealing with the markup or AJAX used on the login screen.
@Irrelevant said:
lolwtf, your "AAAAAAAA..." tag is stretching your posts horizontally (but no-one else's), in [b]Fx3β5[b] at least. Quite frankly, I can't be bothered scrolling sideways to read the text that gets chopped off as a result. Might want to re-think this "cutting off your nose to spite your face" business.
Which OS? the stretching isn't happening here: FF 3beta5, WinXP. It's probably community server's dodgymarkup.
The real WTF is that anyone thinks chocolate ever lasts until its use-by...it just doesn't happen.
Especially when I'm in the same room as the aforementioned chocolate :-)