Gordon Bell of DEC had a sign in his office, "Better is the enemy of Good".
Sure he did. It meant that to sell a VAX architecture, the PDP-11 architecture could not be sustained. Anyhow, despite the beauty of those machines, DEC got sucked into Compaq, and thence into HP. Crap reigns supreme.
Somebody mod parent up, just a little. This will effectively DDOS archive.org, which is already in a pretty feeble condition. That said, it will be obvious to a reader if the page comes from the WABAC.
Look, this is simple. We just need government workers to show up and actually work. Yeah, crazy talk, I know.
Rachel from Cardholder Services advertises on Craigslist in Orlando. How difficult is it to just use their services (I know they're calling people at the FTC) and track them down? Use existing laws to put them out of business. There are plenty of options for those willing to do the minimal amount of work.
To be slightly more precise, we need legislators to get their heads out of each others butts and do their job. The current bunch are almost entirely occupied with infighting. Fire them all, just to be sure.
Several calls a week? I'm envious. I get a minimum of several a day.
You know, murder is a crime because you rob someone of the remaining time they might have had on this planet. Robo callers steal the equivalent of lifetimes every single day and our useless FTC seems utterly incapable of doing a damned thing about it.
What does the FTC regulate again? Oh,... yeah... TRADE. Not theft, not murder, not communications, and definitely not Mumbai sweatshops.
The problem with accepting cash is that you need to find numerate cashiers to count it who will work for an insulting fraction of what they count without skimming any. Even outside the US this is getting to be difficult.
s/don\'t care too much about stopping fraud so long as they don't actually have to absorb the losses from fraud/love fraud so long as they profit from it/
Fixed that for ya
Would it be trash bags? Not even close. Sheets of toilet paper? No, too anthropocentric. Ant eggs? No, too terrestrial-centric. Neutrons? No, but getting warmer....
I've heard the same thing, described as "Pile A" and "Pile B". (I think it was a famous science fiction writer, who had two piles of manuscripts he was working on -- but I can't remember which one. Maybe Robert Heinlein?)
Yeah, RAH really had the knack for plausible-sounding BS. We miss ya, Bob!
For what it's worth, the reports say that the car was a recent model Jeep Cherokee. Recent Chryslers vehicles have an incredibly stupid automatic shifter.
What's astoundingly pathetic is that they had push button automatics which left absolutely no doubt about which gear you'd selected in the 1960s, my first car was a 1960 Dodge Dart Phoenix (2dr) which had this feature. So there is actually a superior interface which Chrysler has used in the past which they could have used here. It would have been both retro, and superior to the garbage they finally did implement which has been injuring and perhaps even killing people.
Marchionne will be remembered as an incompetent douchebag who killed both Fiat and Chrysler.
How many kids die every year when someone leaves them in a hot car to gamble at a casino or run into Walmart? How many dogs have died the same way?
These deaths are almost all preventable by vehicle design. It might take a few hours of coding effort at most. Modern cars all have built-in microphones for handsfree. They could be used to detect an occupant in a parked vehicle and enforce safe limits to temperature, or sound an alarm. Of course, human nature being what it is, the clown-drivers would just use this as an excuse to stay longer in the casino and forget the car is running out of fuel.
JPL gives it magnitude 24 at closest approach, but since it is in a solar orbit similar to Earth's, it only gets that close twice a year. There's a nice animation available at http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.c... (Java required). Just set it for one day incréments and hit ">>" to let it run.
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Gordon Bell of DEC had a sign in his office, "Better is the enemy of Good".
Sure he did. It meant that to sell a VAX architecture, the PDP-11 architecture could not be sustained. Anyhow, despite the beauty of those machines, DEC got sucked into Compaq, and thence into HP. Crap reigns supreme.
Somebody mod parent up, just a little. This will effectively DDOS archive.org, which is already in a pretty feeble condition. That said, it will be obvious to a reader if the page comes from the WABAC.
Trusting someone that's outright plan is to abuse your trust is not a smart thing to do.
(Suppressing my inner grammar-nazi) So, who do you think is not going to abuse your trust? Of course, they'll be the next takeover target...
Look, this is simple. We just need government workers to show up and actually work. Yeah, crazy talk, I know.
Rachel from Cardholder Services advertises on Craigslist in Orlando. How difficult is it to just use their services (I know they're calling people at the FTC) and track them down? Use existing laws to put them out of business. There are plenty of options for those willing to do the minimal amount of work.
To be slightly more precise, we need legislators to get their heads out of each others butts and do their job. The current bunch are almost entirely occupied with infighting. Fire them all, just to be sure.
Several calls a week? I'm envious. I get a minimum of several a day. You know, murder is a crime because you rob someone of the remaining time they might have had on this planet. Robo callers steal the equivalent of lifetimes every single day and our useless FTC seems utterly incapable of doing a damned thing about it.
What does the FTC regulate again? Oh,... yeah... TRADE. Not theft, not murder, not communications, and definitely not Mumbai sweatshops.
Naive question: how many of those people (in each country) are human, rather than corporate persons?
Windows IE sucks again!
"Now with New, New, New MS Edginess!!!"
The problem with accepting cash is that you need to find numerate cashiers to count it who will work for an insulting fraction of what they count without skimming any. Even outside the US this is getting to be difficult.
s/don\'t care too much about stopping fraud so long as they don't actually have to absorb the losses from fraud/love fraud so long as they profit from it/
Fixed that for ya
Would it be trash bags? Not even close. Sheets of toilet paper? No, too anthropocentric. Ant eggs? No, too terrestrial-centric. Neutrons? No, but getting warmer....
It's just as likely (if not more likely) that cognitive decline reduces training. What were these people thinking? Oh,..., wait,...
Sounds like it could be a hipsters dream come true.
Next up: Steampunk mobile phone.
a drop of water in an Olympic swimming pool
s/ic/ic\-sized/p Fixed that for ya.
I've heard the same thing, described as "Pile A" and "Pile B". (I think it was a famous science fiction writer, who had two piles of manuscripts he was working on -- but I can't remember which one. Maybe Robert Heinlein?)
Yeah, RAH really had the knack for plausible-sounding BS. We miss ya, Bob!
Learn the word 'no' and employ it with abandon.
Or just put up a sign: "Go solve your own problem, don't bother me!"
BTW, we (USA) could probably BUY Canada
"Hey, China, how good is the US credit line?"
There's a vaccine for that.
There's no other viable explanation for this "story".
For what it's worth, the reports say that the car was a recent model Jeep Cherokee. Recent Chryslers vehicles have an incredibly stupid automatic shifter.
What's astoundingly pathetic is that they had push button automatics which left absolutely no doubt about which gear you'd selected in the 1960s, my first car was a 1960 Dodge Dart Phoenix (2dr) which had this feature. So there is actually a superior interface which Chrysler has used in the past which they could have used here. It would have been both retro, and superior to the garbage they finally did implement which has been injuring and perhaps even killing people.
Marchionne will be remembered as an incompetent douchebag who killed both Fiat and Chrysler.
You might want to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... on that topic.
What? Now you need a license to operate a horse?
What, you select "Start" to shut down?
How many kids die every year when someone leaves them in a hot car to gamble at a casino or run into Walmart? How many dogs have died the same way?
These deaths are almost all preventable by vehicle design. It might take a few hours of coding effort at most. Modern cars all have built-in microphones for handsfree. They could be used to detect an occupant in a parked vehicle and enforce safe limits to temperature, or sound an alarm. Of course, human nature being what it is, the clown-drivers would just use this as an excuse to stay longer in the casino and forget the car is running out of fuel.
JPL gives it magnitude 24 at closest approach, but since it is in a solar orbit similar to Earth's, it only gets that close twice a year. There's a nice animation available at http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.c... (Java required). Just set it for one day incréments and hit ">>" to let it run.
"satellite, n. 2.a. small or secondary planet that revolves around a larger one."
-see http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/...
We should go back to classic resolution of disagreements. Pellet guns at 50 meters. The first balloon down loses.
You`ll put your eye out with that, kid.