Which, of course, is why a marine biologist like Phillip Clapham was quoted as saying {in speaking of whale song as communication}, "probably the most complex in the animal kingdom."
Its like a very easy to use forum and blog for your life.
Ah, and there you've hit the nail on the head...
It allows people to pretend that their life matters to a bunch of "friends", most of whom you've never met, and will probably never meet in your lifetime.
Nothing personal, but the lives of most people {myself included} just aren't interesting enough to blog about.
voicebox is not entirely the description to go for. so howabout RICHNESS and COMPLEXITY of communication is what makes us special, whether by hand or voicebox.
Excuse me, but there's a humpback whale at the door that'd like a word with you....
Meaningful error messages mean you might figure out how to solve the problem yourself, and then you wouldn't need an expensive, annually-renewed, convoluted, "platinum" support contract.
Managed to get a client away from just this sort of jackassery. It was a DOS-based medical practice app that was buggy as hell. Their solution: Package bug-fixes as "upgrades" and charge for 'em. I was disgusted.
True for the shuttle, but not true for the new system. The capsule has an escape rocket, the launch abort system, that will pull it away from the stack in the event of a catastrophe.
...but not from the debris cloud, which at 2000 degrees will melt the nylon parachute used to keep the escape capsule aloft.
This was in the article, y'know...
When did you come to that reality? I got to that point at around the late 1990's. Their HP-48GX calculators were great, though (released late 80's - early '90's).
I call them the "Fiorina Days", and still gripe about it.
Why haven't we had this sooner? Seems a no-brainer to put most car display on a HUD. I'm talking basic automotive display not navigation or other distracting display. We need this NOW. Maybe more people would be more conscious of what they are doing, what the condition of the car is and gee, keep their eyes up and more on the road.
Same gripe, and I'll take it further:
I'd like to be able to customize the instrument panel in my Crown Vic, but there's a marked lack in aftermarket instrument clusters. If I had investment capital, I'd have been all over this years ago.
Contrary to popular opinion, most "oppressive regimes" won't throw you in jail for grumbling about the government. They're more interested with suppressing people who can actually affect things - e.g. when information is published through mass media and can reach many people.
So you're saying that grumbling's OK in China, as long as you don't do it in the presence of other people?
Had five minutes to spare and figured I'd give it a shot:
Prince? Well, his rants have no standing.
He is jus' getting too old {getting too old..}
He is complaining, demanding,
RIAA has purchased his soul, now, too.
Or maybe he's just like my mother,
Senile and covered in poo..
Why does he scream at his fanbase?
This is what it sounds like when you've loose screws...
Facebook suffers from the same thing, but when people complain about facebook's lack of privacy features, they're generally referring to facebook's intentional moves to make their users' private info public.
Sorry, but when one of your lead developers admits to infecting your users purposely on video, and you do NOTHING about it, you've lost all credibility.
Fook Facebook AND Zynga games.
I feel like punching people when they call their SUV's Jeeps.
That's OK. I get the same feeling when I hear soccer moms call it an SUV when you know good and well that less than 1% use the "S" part of it. Almost EVERY vehicle has utility, so the "U" is obvious. What's left? A vehicle... but Marketing wouldn't stand for that, would they?
Many "SUV" drivers are the same people that'd buy Brawndo because "it has electrolytes!"
I'm all for security but now this all nonsensical.
Ok, I'm game. What's been implemented post-9/11 that's made us more secure?
Instead of actually making actual changes they just impose extremely annoying rules that have no actual security improvement. What does it matter whether or not it is the last hour...can't the terrorist just set off a bomb...I dunno before the last hour. I don't understand what the actual point of this rule is.
To make stupid people feel more secure by appearing to do something.
So if I want to pee, read a book, put something away, or so much as even flinch I'm gonna be threatened with an arrest. Simply inconveniencing people isn't gonna make security any better...
You're assuming that's their goal.... and it SHOULD be. I ask you this: do you feel more secure now?
So before we go into another round of 'how much blame can we heap on the government', let's think for a moment that the government is nothing more than a reflection of a very noisy and ill-informed subset of the politicians, and their values.
Trust me I would have loved to write it, but for whatever reason, management has decided that in-house applications are a dying breed, and that any major software to be used must be purchased from a vendor.
Ok, I'll bite... why isn't the vendor being held accountable and being asked to fix the bugs?
TI doesn't care what programs you write, in assembly OR TI-Basic. They do care if you overwrite their OS.
Funny, I don't remember agreeing to a EULA when I first opened the box and powered it up. Their right to ANYthing concerning their equipment ended when I bought it.
And if you're not at your desk the moment the computer catches fire, you now have a fire in your office, rather than in a data centre designed for containing fires (e.g. with those inert gas displacement systems).
Our shop is small enough, and my nose sensitive enough, that I can smell crispiness from the other side of the shop... In fact, just that happened the other day when I was in front with some clients. I excused myself, found the PSU fan had stopped, and promptly shut down. As for what might happen if I wasn't at my desk? My first thought is "smoke detector".
If a part goes crispy, you can smell it, and sometimes hear it. You can get to the server in time to avert what could be a larger problem if something were to catch fire. I'll take sitting by my equipment, thanks...
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Which, of course, is why a marine biologist like Phillip Clapham was quoted as saying {in speaking of whale song as communication}, "probably the most complex in the animal kingdom."
Do you have any citations?
Its like a very easy to use forum and blog for your life.
Ah, and there you've hit the nail on the head... It allows people to pretend that their life matters to a bunch of "friends", most of whom you've never met, and will probably never meet in your lifetime. Nothing personal, but the lives of most people {myself included} just aren't interesting enough to blog about.
voicebox is not entirely the description to go for. so howabout RICHNESS and COMPLEXITY of communication is what makes us special, whether by hand or voicebox.
Excuse me, but there's a humpback whale at the door that'd like a word with you....
All the really cool kids are using fnord now!
Just great... now you've got me pining for the fnords...
Let's just drop that old saw right now. Taxing them more heavily isn't going to FIX anything and it'll actually make things worse.
Agreed. Why, if GE would've had to pay even a dime of federal taxes this year, the repercussions would've been dire for us all. Dire, I tell you!
Remember when every new HP product, bar none, was excruciatingly cool?
This one makes my sphincter clench.
As far as I can tell, the shift from engineering to marketing happened when Fiorina took over HP...
Meaningful error messages mean you might figure out how to solve the problem yourself, and then you wouldn't need an expensive, annually-renewed, convoluted, "platinum" support contract.
Managed to get a client away from just this sort of jackassery. It was a DOS-based medical practice app that was buggy as hell. Their solution: Package bug-fixes as "upgrades" and charge for 'em. I was disgusted.
....said my brain, and so I looked up the individual involved in the case.
To say the least, I got a stiffy...
True for the shuttle, but not true for the new system. The capsule has an escape rocket, the launch abort system, that will pull it away from the stack in the event of a catastrophe.
...but not from the debris cloud, which at 2000 degrees will melt the nylon parachute used to keep the escape capsule aloft. This was in the article, y'know...
When did you come to that reality? I got to that point at around the late 1990's. Their HP-48GX calculators were great, though (released late 80's - early '90's).
I call them the "Fiorina Days", and still gripe about it.
Why haven't we had this sooner? Seems a no-brainer to put most car display on a HUD. I'm talking basic automotive display not navigation or other distracting display. We need this NOW. Maybe more people would be more conscious of what they are doing, what the condition of the car is and gee, keep their eyes up and more on the road.
Same gripe, and I'll take it further: I'd like to be able to customize the instrument panel in my Crown Vic, but there's a marked lack in aftermarket instrument clusters. If I had investment capital, I'd have been all over this years ago.
I haven't heard about that. Love to see some info it.
Check out more here.
Contrary to popular opinion, most "oppressive regimes" won't throw you in jail for grumbling about the government. They're more interested with suppressing people who can actually affect things - e.g. when information is published through mass media and can reach many people.
So you're saying that grumbling's OK in China, as long as you don't do it in the presence of other people?
Had five minutes to spare and figured I'd give it a shot:
Prince? Well, his rants have no standing.
He is jus' getting too old {getting too old..}
He is complaining, demanding,
RIAA has purchased his soul, now, too.
Or maybe he's just like my mother,
Senile and covered in poo..
Why does he scream at his fanbase?
This is what it sounds like when you've loose screws...
So you're OK with risking our rears on the highway by speeding AND you're also trying to raise our kids for us. Lovely.
Let me guess.... you're composed solely of vinegar and water.
Facebook suffers from the same thing, but when people complain about facebook's lack of privacy features, they're generally referring to facebook's intentional moves to make their users' private info public.
Sorry, but when one of your lead developers admits to infecting your users purposely on video, and you do NOTHING about it, you've lost all credibility. Fook Facebook AND Zynga games.
I feel like punching people when they call their SUV's Jeeps.
That's OK. I get the same feeling when I hear soccer moms call it an SUV when you know good and well that less than 1% use the "S" part of it. Almost EVERY vehicle has utility, so the "U" is obvious. What's left? A vehicle... but Marketing wouldn't stand for that, would they? Many "SUV" drivers are the same people that'd buy Brawndo because "it has electrolytes!"
I'm all for security but now this all nonsensical.
Ok, I'm game. What's been implemented post-9/11 that's made us more secure?
Instead of actually making actual changes they just impose extremely annoying rules that have no actual security improvement. What does it matter whether or not it is the last hour...can't the terrorist just set off a bomb...I dunno before the last hour. I don't understand what the actual point of this rule is.
To make stupid people feel more secure by appearing to do something.
So if I want to pee, read a book, put something away, or so much as even flinch I'm gonna be threatened with an arrest. Simply inconveniencing people isn't gonna make security any better...
You're assuming that's their goal.... and it SHOULD be. I ask you this: do you feel more secure now?
So before we go into another round of 'how much blame can we heap on the government', let's think for a moment that the government is nothing more than a reflection of a very noisy and ill-informed subset of the politicians, and their values.
Fixed that for ya.
Trust me I would have loved to write it, but for whatever reason, management has decided that in-house applications are a dying breed, and that any major software to be used must be purchased from a vendor.
Ok, I'll bite... why isn't the vendor being held accountable and being asked to fix the bugs?
So?
TI doesn't care what programs you write, in assembly OR TI-Basic. They do care if you overwrite their OS.
Funny, I don't remember agreeing to a EULA when I first opened the box and powered it up. Their right to ANYthing concerning their equipment ended when I bought it.
And if you're not at your desk the moment the computer catches fire, you now have a fire in your office, rather than in a data centre designed for containing fires (e.g. with those inert gas displacement systems).
Our shop is small enough, and my nose sensitive enough, that I can smell crispiness from the other side of the shop... In fact, just that happened the other day when I was in front with some clients. I excused myself, found the PSU fan had stopped, and promptly shut down. As for what might happen if I wasn't at my desk? My first thought is "smoke detector".
If a part goes crispy, you can smell it, and sometimes hear it. You can get to the server in time to avert what could be a larger problem if something were to catch fire. I'll take sitting by my equipment, thanks...
You could say the same for doctors, malpractice insurance, and damage caps. It's still a good idea to have doctors, though.