oh - so, by your logic, if I have a demo that I don't think people will watch, I can advertise it as "naked pictures of your mom" - of course, it's not _literally_ naked pictures of your mom - I'm just using it because I can't find any other term which would make people sit through the whole demo - naked pictures of your mom, btw, are ultra-sleek
related: quotations marks are also often used when quoting people not just for poor slashdot headlines
I can tell you exactly why. The short answer is that most people are dumb. I used to work in a music store (guitars, drums, etc - not a record store). Dudes would come in all the time because they wanted to buy something. It wasn't like "I need a new guitar." It was more like "I have some money and this place sells things." Dude would typically go into our PA area (sound systems, EQs, compressors, etc), find some rack piece with a certain price, then ask "what's this?" I'm serious. These dudes - mostly hispanic and hatian men - were primarily interested in the price and the discount. Functionality was a second thought. People flooded into that store because they thought they were going to get deals. Dude didn't need a new TV or a DVD player or a game system. He bought it because he thought he was getting a deal. It's fucking stupid if you ask me, but so are they.
at my first company, all of our servers were named after planets from star wars and all the workstations were characters - jabba and greedo were my main and dev machines and our exchange server was the deathstar
i buy a lot of CDs - on average, one a week for the past 6 years - I also download a lot of music - when I download something I like, I almost always buy it on CD (or sometimes LP) - when I dowload something I don't like, I delete it - if it's just OK, I may keep it around but probably rarely listen to it, since I tend to prefer music that I like (?)
I use downloads as a way to try new music on my own timetable - I don't listen to the radio or watch MTV (does MTV even still show videos?) so I really hear about things mostly through word of mouth
so, yeah, I download crap, but I also give a fuckton of money to the record companies and rarely listen to the stuff that I don't own on some physical format - sounds like a win for the record companies
Do you find the idea of creating a "gui interface using visual basic" to see about tracking an ip address as more fit for a sitcom rather than crime drama?
(in thick "chicago guy" accent)
oh you must mean one a dem dere Graphical User Interface interfaces - i heard a dem
and while we're at it, the M in ATM stands for machine and the N in PIN (and VIN and SSN) stands for number - when you say "the ATM machine asked for my PIN number" you sound like an idiot and I sound uptight about it;)
yeah - this is not QA's fault - this chunk of code should have been united tested - if it was unit tested, the tests were not sufficient
no QA group is going to be tasked with "run the tests on monday, then run them on tuesday just to make sure that there's nothing monday-specific in the code"
well there you have it. the gender gap is widening because of this rude college "teacher" (they used to be called professors when I went to college - teachers were for high school - oh how times change)
I _love_ when people things like "only a fraction of the people use it" or "at a fraction of the original price!" 9,999,999,999/2 is a fraction, albeit an improper one. 99/100 is also a fraction.
good question - my friend bought a jetta (this was years ago) and the salesdork offered his something - I can't remember what is was called - loadjack or freejack or carjack - but it was, essentially, a GPS unit for the car that could be used in the event it was stolen - I can't remember if the guy hinted that this would provide an insurance break, but it wouldn't seem that far fetched to me
I speculate that this will encounter fate similar to that of the Chevy Nova. "No va" in Spanish means "doesn't go" - it wasn't very popular out Spanish speaking countries.... who, in the English-speaking world, is going to get into a "rob-u-cab" ?
would that help here? if I'm captainairforce@airforce.gov and I send an e-mail to joecivilian@hishouse.org, hishouse.org is in the public DNS, so my e-mail still gets to him, no?
your solution would only stop people from sending mails _to_ the air force, no?
so - I read the abstract, clicked the link, then read the comic. it's not funny... or.... um... I don't even know how to describe it - I actually had a hard time reading it and had to go back and read it again... twice... just to understand who was saying what... but I can't figure out why they were saying the things they were - are these two people friends? lovers? co-workers? and why is this guy reading over this girl's shoulder so intently that he can understand things on the page better than she can? and where did she get the receipt? I just don't get it...
so I jumped over here to read the comments and no one posted about how awful the comic was - just about how awful the idea of the comic and/or microsoft was (is). did anyone else read it? it's really stupid
I've seen a lot - I've got one - one of my close friends has one - her ex-boyfriend has one - several people (3 I can think of off the top of my head) I work with have them - I see them in the elevator - on the subway - in the airport - at parties - bars - I'm actually amazed how many people have them - and the diverse types of people, frankly.
it has 2 USB connectors and a LAN connector, so it sits on top of my fridge (where the phone line comes in) next to the wireless router and has a WD mybook 500GB guy plugged into it - I also plug my ipod into it sometimes - then I can see everything from all my machines and its reasonably fast - my music collection is in apple lossless format which has fairly large file size (compared to mp3) so editing tags over the wireless is real slow in itunes - not sure why
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oh - so, by your logic, if I have a demo that I don't think people will watch, I can advertise it as "naked pictures of your mom" - of course, it's not _literally_ naked pictures of your mom - I'm just using it because I can't find any other term which would make people sit through the whole demo - naked pictures of your mom, btw, are ultra-sleek
related: quotations marks are also often used when quoting people not just for poor slashdot headlines
that's life in the faslane
get it?
I can tell you exactly why. The short answer is that most people are dumb. I used to work in a music store (guitars, drums, etc - not a record store). Dudes would come in all the time because they wanted to buy something. It wasn't like "I need a new guitar." It was more like "I have some money and this place sells things." Dude would typically go into our PA area (sound systems, EQs, compressors, etc), find some rack piece with a certain price, then ask "what's this?" I'm serious. These dudes - mostly hispanic and hatian men - were primarily interested in the price and the discount. Functionality was a second thought. People flooded into that store because they thought they were going to get deals. Dude didn't need a new TV or a DVD player or a game system. He bought it because he thought he was getting a deal. It's fucking stupid if you ask me, but so are they.
at my first company, all of our servers were named after planets from star wars and all the workstations were characters - jabba and greedo were my main and dev machines and our exchange server was the deathstar
i buy a lot of CDs - on average, one a week for the past 6 years - I also download a lot of music - when I download something I like, I almost always buy it on CD (or sometimes LP) - when I dowload something I don't like, I delete it - if it's just OK, I may keep it around but probably rarely listen to it, since I tend to prefer music that I like (?)
I use downloads as a way to try new music on my own timetable - I don't listen to the radio or watch MTV (does MTV even still show videos?) so I really hear about things mostly through word of mouth
so, yeah, I download crap, but I also give a fuckton of money to the record companies and rarely listen to the stuff that I don't own on some physical format - sounds like a win for the record companies
(in thick "chicago guy" accent)
oh you must mean one a dem dere Graphical User Interface interfaces - i heard a dem
and while we're at it, the M in ATM stands for machine and the N in PIN (and VIN and SSN) stands for number - when you say "the ATM machine asked for my PIN number" you sound like an idiot and I sound uptight about it ;)
yeah - this is not QA's fault - this chunk of code should have been united tested - if it was unit tested, the tests were not sufficient
no QA group is going to be tasked with "run the tests on monday, then run them on tuesday just to make sure that there's nothing monday-specific in the code"
in movies, silly
well there you have it. the gender gap is widening because of this rude college "teacher" (they used to be called professors when I went to college - teachers were for high school - oh how times change)
fewer than 5.
one of the many reasons why your opinion doesn't interest me.
I hate the fucking eagles.
well, duh!
-w
I _love_ when people things like "only a fraction of the people use it" or "at a fraction of the original price!" 9,999,999,999/2 is a fraction, albeit an improper one. 99/100 is also a fraction.
good question - my friend bought a jetta (this was years ago) and the salesdork offered his something - I can't remember what is was called - loadjack or freejack or carjack - but it was, essentially, a GPS unit for the car that could be used in the event it was stolen - I can't remember if the guy hinted that this would provide an insurance break, but it wouldn't seem that far fetched to me
-w
not to mention: 65% more awesome!
I speculate that this will encounter fate similar to that of the Chevy Nova. "No va" in Spanish means "doesn't go" - it wasn't very popular out Spanish speaking countries.... who, in the English-speaking world, is going to get into a "rob-u-cab" ?
and the zune can do everything the ipod can do, so it's an automatic 'ipod killer'
these types of posts are annoying
"the iphone is a joke because could do all that too"
yeah. it _could_ do it, but it doesn't.
iphone beat them to the punch - it's out in the wild, people love it, it's getting market share, yadda yadda yadda
would that help here? if I'm captainairforce@airforce.gov and I send an e-mail to joecivilian@hishouse.org, hishouse.org is in the public DNS, so my e-mail still gets to him, no?
your solution would only stop people from sending mails _to_ the air force, no?
from the summary...
"His first name is Matthew, and he poses a unique challenge to the federal justice system, because he is blind from birth. "
Why is this a unique challenge for the justice system? Haven't blind people committed/been accused of/been tried for crimes in the past? I'm confused.
I think the summarizer just wanted to mention that he's blind and couldn't think of a better way to do it. Crappy writing if you ask me.
-w
so - I read the abstract, clicked the link, then read the comic. it's not funny ... or .... um... I don't even know how to describe it - I actually had a hard time reading it and had to go back and read it again ... twice... just to understand who was saying what ... but I can't figure out why they were saying the things they were - are these two people friends? lovers? co-workers? and why is this guy reading over this girl's shoulder so intently that he can understand things on the page better than she can? and where did she get the receipt? I just don't get it ...
so I jumped over here to read the comments and no one posted about how awful the comic was - just about how awful the idea of the comic and/or microsoft was (is). did anyone else read it? it's really stupid
I've seen a lot - I've got one - one of my close friends has one - her ex-boyfriend has one - several people (3 I can think of off the top of my head) I work with have them - I see them in the elevator - on the subway - in the airport - at parties - bars - I'm actually amazed how many people have them - and the diverse types of people, frankly.
get this one
I use one of these at home - not sure if it's what you need
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2
it has 2 USB connectors and a LAN connector, so it sits on top of my fridge (where the phone line comes in) next to the wireless router and has a WD mybook 500GB guy plugged into it - I also plug my ipod into it sometimes - then I can see everything from all my machines and its reasonably fast - my music collection is in apple lossless format which has fairly large file size (compared to mp3) so editing tags over the wireless is real slow in itunes - not sure why