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Re: How do I get rid of the "launchpad" in XFCE?



On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 08:52 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 12/7/2013 4:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 20:33 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> >> On 12/6/2013 5:23 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> >>> André Nunes Batista wrote:
> >>>> BTW, why did they change that? Panel 0 and Panel 1 were such an cool way
> >>>> to teach gui users to count.
> >>>
> >>> Hmm...  I disagree.  Counting and indexing are two different things.
> >>> Indexes start at zero.  Counting starts at one.
> >>>
> >>> This is often described as the classic fencepost problem.
> >>>
> >>> Bob
> >>>
> >>
> >> In SOME languages, indexing starts at 0.  C was the first popular
> >> language to do this.  Older languages such as BASIC, FORTRAN and COBOL
> >> start at 1 (unless that's also changed in the last 20 years! :) ).
> >
> > Note folks, you only seem to think about computers. But the logic has
> > less to do with computers, it does effect computers too, but is not
> > related to computers, it's a logical issue.
> >
> 
> This is a list about computers.
> 
> > The logical issue, math isn't logic, is not a computer related problem,
> > it's real live math from a long, long time before humans know computers.
> >
> 
> To say math is not logical shows how little you understand math.
> 
> <snip rest of tripe>
> 

Logic is another science than math is in my country. Isn't it in yours?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic




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