Watching the Super Bowl is pointless because the San Diego Chargers aren't playing in it. If you recall, their "pro-bowl" kicker took bribes from Indianapolis and missed 3 kicks in a row during the previous game against the New York Jets - kicks that would have won that game. If the Chargers won that game they would have played the Indianapolis Colts and won because they have a flawless record against Peyton manning.
But yeah, fuck the NFL. It's only fun if my team wins;)
I'm just tired of the "you guys did X so that means we can do Y, and how dare you criticize me for X when you've done Z" and it's all a downward cycle.
Yeah, try that while going 90 on the highway with a stuck accelerator. As was mentioned before, the best option* is a panic button to put the car into neutral and maybe even cut the engine.
* Actually, the best option is a good olde-fashioned hand-shifted mechanical manual transmission.
The attitude in my original post is not just that of Americans. If I were going to live in Mexico or China, or anywhere else for that matter, then I would seriously immerse myself with my host country's language and social/behavioral norms. It's common fucking courtesy.
People who immigrate to America have the luxury of not being expected to adapt to the social and behavioral norms of America. Americans such as myself who believe that they should are labeled fascists or nationalists. America is a big melting pot. Shouldn't immigrants make more effort to, you know, melt a little?
You kinda make a good point. In my opinion, the difference between a calculator and a program is a GUI interface with buttons for numbers and functions. Almost everything mentioned in the discussion(but not the article) are command-line calculators and computer algebra systems.
Gnome's calculator is excellent for basic stuff. Compared to Windows, Linux is still severely lacking with the usability of Computer Algebra Systems - many of which are still commmand-line( in before 'Get off my lawn'), though some have very crappy GUI wrappers which open plots in new windows. That's one of my biggest pet peeves as a student and recent Linux convert. Needing 2 or three open windows(terminal, gui, plots) is too cluttered for those of us who are spoiled with things like Maple*. On the other end of the usability spectrum, there's the labyrinthine Sage, which requires running in Mozilla if you want a GUI! That caused usability problems with NoScript even before I started to use the damn thing, and now it won't even start again without tinkering. I might even make room for a Windows partition for Maple or Matlab, or run them in VMs.
* Yes, I know they make 'em for *NIX. They just might be the first Linux programs I'll actually buy.
One thing I cannot stress enough is to hire culturally Americanized workers. Younger, um, "ethnic" workers are more likely to be Americanized if they have served in the American military or are at least second-generation immigrants. The clarity and fluency of their English is a good indicator of their desirability.
Do not hire first-generation Asian, African, or Latino immigrants unless they were already Westernized elsewhere. First-generation immigrants' cultural traits are generally undesirable. They are impossible to communicate with and that alone reduces overall productivity. They are very xenophobic and they will congregate into their respective groups and, in their native language, will badmouth and gossip* about everybody who is not like they are.
There is a lot of cultural B.S. involved. For example - at a very F.O.B.-dominated company I worked at, the boss was very short. Being short is very undesirable for a male in that boss' culture, so all of the caucasians sat on the floor so as not to tower over him and make things awkward. Fuck that, man. In the modern American workplace the boss would make jokes about his shortness and everybody would respect him for it.
Now that that's out of the way, do not feel upset if everybody dosen't want to be bestest buddies with each other. Many people just aren't social or they compartmentalize their work and play behavior. They're there to work, not to gossip about Donna's rack at the water cooler. In my experience, company meetings are only two things - free food and being forced to hear the latest rah-rah bullshit propaganda from leadership who would lay me off if cutting one more head adds a few hundred to their bonus.
* Many of you will say I just did that. That shit's okay when venting anonymously online. It's not okay in the modern American workplace.
What the fuck were those guys thinking? We know about the fight with Fujitsu over the iPad name, but in today's New York Times there was an article about the ambiguous vulgarity of the name itself. From that one:
Many women are saying the name evokes awkward associations with feminine hygiene products. People from Boston to Ireland are complaining that "iPad," in their regional brogue, sounds almost indistinguishable from "iPod," Apple's music player.
What's going on? This is Steve's baby. He's been working on a "new Newton" since, what, 2000? Well, his perfectionism payed off and now the ones who aren't laughing are the ones who don't give a shit. Hey guys! Let's make an iPhone, but bigger, and a gajillion times more expensive! They'll love it, especially in this economy! More from that last one:
He is not sure Apple could have found an alternative that ties in as perfectly to its famous brands. "I think we're going to get over this fairly quickly and we'll get on with enjoying the experience."
Here's an idea - What Steve should have done was release a tablet version of the MacBook Air (with the exact same software compatibility, OS, etc.) and call it the MacBook Slate or MacBook Touch. I would have bought one of those, and I'm often the first to question the sexual orientation of male Mac users.
The summary? Fair game. Would you rather have GNAA first posts? I for one would, but...
More irksome are otherwise excellent threads being derailed down the line because otherwise excellent highly-technical posts, the kind which make the trolls shut up and listen, have an apostrophe or "their/there" misuse.
I could post "nigger" all day and still be less effective than the horde of grammar nazis who think they're so smart just because they passed English 101. Those kind of fuckers are even worse in a real-life classroom.
Trust me, the problem will solve itself one way or the other.
Especially because I busted two nuts last night(in the orifices of a woman, mind you) after saving up for two days, all the while masturbating myself to the edge before abruptly stopping. It was necessary to channel the power of the world's most powerful Negro, Shaquille O' Neal.
So long as the patient has insurance. The devices would be a hypochondriac's wet dream and worst nightmare all in one.
A shrink once told me that internal organs being shown in childhood Draw-A-Person and House-tree-person test are popularly interpreted as precursors to schizophrenia.
When the computer kept crashing, Ms. Kalach, the medical physicist, did not realize that her instructions for the collimator had not been saved, state records show. She proceeded as though the problem had been fixed...
...Shortly after 11 a.m., as Ms. Kalach was trying to save her work, the computer began seizing up, displaying an error message. The hospital would later say that similar system crashes "are not uncommon with the Varian software, and these issues have been communicated to Varian on numerous occasions."
Surprise, surprise. A little link-jumping through the manufacturer's products and job openings reveal.NET on Win32.
Or could somebody prove that the machines themselves run Linux or some kind of other embedded OS?
Also, TFA mentioned that the touchscreen is a simple X Y MIDI CC. Devices like that, such as the Korg KAOSS pads, have been out for awhile. My question(I'm a longtime guitar player) is if the touchscreen could be calibrated(via OS hacks?) for fingerstyle playing. That is, to calibrate seperate resting positions for your thumb and then five other spaces for the other strings and then each tap in that particular spot would pluck its respective string.
Think of playing songs like Fleetwood Mac's Landslide or Metallica's Nothing Else Matters. If the software controlling the pad could be changed to support that, I'd buy one. Otherwise it's just a fancy KAOSS pad.
I always kind of figured other cultures had the notion that long side of the triangle was merely the way it was facing, as if the point to the right is to start from nothing and grow into something.
Ha HA! Man, that was fucking brilliant. It would suck to work with an Israeli or an Arab and piles of electrical schematics, especially diodes and transistors. Hole flow or electron flow?
San Diego at first glance seems like a paradise - nice year-round weather, healthy citizens, beautiful beaches, a strong tech sector, the occasional Comic-Con...but don't move there.
The place is a mess driven by greedy power-hungry conservatives. It's the number-one place of retirement for FBI agents and a place where steroid-addled Blackwater employees proudly wear Blackwater T-shirts stretched over their massive backs. The Catholic mafia of judges has a deep historical entrenchment there, and the right-wing Christian conservatism is fueled by the vast military presence of Camp Pendleton and Naval Region SW.
Because of that presence, San Diego is the test-bed for a prototype police state as evidenced by the network of cameras and industries such as NSM Surveillance. In fact, I have personally witnessed the police using a helicopter to scare away a few hippies out on the rocks at Sunset Cliffs. Not to mention that the authorities are busting legal medical marijuana shops on the basis of marijuana being illegal as defined by federal law(and yet, they don't try that shit in L.A. or San Francisco).
The universities are waaay overpriced and overcrowded with conservative Asians and other douchebag business majors from states like Iowa. Those douchebags, coupled with the huge number of military, decide to stay in San Diego when they graduate or leave the service. That causes problems with overcrowding and skyrocketting property costs - hell, they're even trying to gentrify Barrio Logan. The douchebag loft-buyers snatch up whatever they can in east San Diego, then they bitch about them having bought condos in fucked up parts of town. Also, yuppies, yuppies, yuppies. There are also lots of immigrants who settled out of the military and then brought their whole families into the country. Their nieces and grandmas are the ones getting those jobs, not you.
...this does not apply to Mac users, because Mac's don't suffer from drive-by downloads and other malware. My PPC G5 running Safari on Snow Leopard is rock-solid and secure.
People think that Mac's are expensive, but the safety and security alone are reasons to justify the high price. The sleek, advanced looks are just the icing on the cake.
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Watching the Super Bowl is pointless because the San Diego Chargers aren't playing in it. If you recall, their "pro-bowl" kicker took bribes from Indianapolis and missed 3 kicks in a row during the previous game against the New York Jets - kicks that would have won that game. If the Chargers won that game they would have played the Indianapolis Colts and won because they have a flawless record against Peyton manning.
;)
But yeah, fuck the NFL. It's only fun if my team wins
It's as if we never leave the schoolyard.
Yeah, try that while going 90 on the highway with a stuck accelerator. As was mentioned before, the best option* is a panic button to put the car into neutral and maybe even cut the engine.
* Actually, the best option is a good olde-fashioned hand-shifted mechanical manual transmission.
The attitude in my original post is not just that of Americans. If I were going to live in Mexico or China, or anywhere else for that matter, then I would seriously immerse myself with my host country's language and social/behavioral norms. It's common fucking courtesy.
People who immigrate to America have the luxury of not being expected to adapt to the social and behavioral norms of America. Americans such as myself who believe that they should are labeled fascists or nationalists. America is a big melting pot. Shouldn't immigrants make more effort to, you know, melt a little?
You kinda make a good point. In my opinion, the difference between a calculator and a program is a GUI interface with buttons for numbers and functions. Almost everything mentioned in the discussion(but not the article) are command-line calculators and computer algebra systems.
Gnome's calculator is excellent for basic stuff. Compared to Windows, Linux is still severely lacking with the usability of Computer Algebra Systems - many of which are still commmand-line( in before 'Get off my lawn'), though some have very crappy GUI wrappers which open plots in new windows. That's one of my biggest pet peeves as a student and recent Linux convert. Needing 2 or three open windows(terminal, gui, plots) is too cluttered for those of us who are spoiled with things like Maple*. On the other end of the usability spectrum, there's the labyrinthine Sage, which requires running in Mozilla if you want a GUI! That caused usability problems with NoScript even before I started to use the damn thing, and now it won't even start again without tinkering. I might even make room for a Windows partition for Maple or Matlab, or run them in VMs.
* Yes, I know they make 'em for *NIX. They just might be the first Linux programs I'll actually buy.
One thing I cannot stress enough is to hire culturally Americanized workers. Younger, um, "ethnic" workers are more likely to be Americanized if they have served in the American military or are at least second-generation immigrants. The clarity and fluency of their English is a good indicator of their desirability.
Do not hire first-generation Asian, African, or Latino immigrants unless they were already Westernized elsewhere. First-generation immigrants' cultural traits are generally undesirable. They are impossible to communicate with and that alone reduces overall productivity. They are very xenophobic and they will congregate into their respective groups and, in their native language, will badmouth and gossip* about everybody who is not like they are.
There is a lot of cultural B.S. involved. For example - at a very F.O.B.-dominated company I worked at, the boss was very short. Being short is very undesirable for a male in that boss' culture, so all of the caucasians sat on the floor so as not to tower over him and make things awkward. Fuck that, man. In the modern American workplace the boss would make jokes about his shortness and everybody would respect him for it.
Now that that's out of the way, do not feel upset if everybody dosen't want to be bestest buddies with each other. Many people just aren't social or they compartmentalize their work and play behavior. They're there to work, not to gossip about Donna's rack at the water cooler. In my experience, company meetings are only two things - free food and being forced to hear the latest rah-rah bullshit propaganda from leadership who would lay me off if cutting one more head adds a few hundred to their bonus.
* Many of you will say I just did that. That shit's okay when venting anonymously online. It's not okay in the modern American workplace.
What's going on? This is Steve's baby. He's been working on a "new Newton" since, what, 2000? Well, his perfectionism payed off and now the ones who aren't laughing are the ones who don't give a shit. Hey guys! Let's make an iPhone, but bigger, and a gajillion times more expensive! They'll love it, especially in this economy! More from that last one:
Here's an idea - What Steve should have done was release a tablet version of the MacBook Air (with the exact same software compatibility, OS, etc.) and call it the MacBook Slate or MacBook Touch. I would have bought one of those, and I'm often the first to question the sexual orientation of male Mac users.
The summary? Fair game. Would you rather have GNAA first posts? I for one would, but...
More irksome are otherwise excellent threads being derailed down the line because otherwise excellent highly-technical posts, the kind which make the trolls shut up and listen, have an apostrophe or "their/there" misuse.
I could post "nigger" all day and still be less effective than the horde of grammar nazis who think they're so smart just because they passed English 101. Those kind of fuckers are even worse in a real-life classroom.
Especially because I busted two nuts last night(in the orifices of a woman, mind you) after saving up for two days, all the while masturbating myself to the edge before abruptly stopping. It was necessary to channel the power of the world's most powerful Negro, Shaquille O' Neal.
So long as the patient has insurance. The devices would be a hypochondriac's wet dream and worst nightmare all in one.
A shrink once told me that internal organs being shown in childhood Draw-A-Person and House-tree-person test are popularly interpreted as precursors to schizophrenia.
Surprise, surprise. A little link-jumping through the manufacturer's products and job openings reveal .NET on Win32.
Or could somebody prove that the machines themselves run Linux or some kind of other embedded OS?
Oh, man. The misanthropes on 4chan's /b/ are going to have a lot of fun with it.
True.
The newfangled action UI's like the ones in TFA look like toy packaging.
Maybe the best thing for humanity, as long as there were survivors, would be an apocalypse.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Also, TFA mentioned that the touchscreen is a simple X Y MIDI CC. Devices like that, such as the Korg KAOSS pads, have been out for awhile. My question(I'm a longtime guitar player) is if the touchscreen could be calibrated(via OS hacks?) for fingerstyle playing. That is, to calibrate seperate resting positions for your thumb and then five other spaces for the other strings and then each tap in that particular spot would pluck its respective string.
Think of playing songs like Fleetwood Mac's Landslide or Metallica's Nothing Else Matters. If the software controlling the pad could be changed to support that, I'd buy one. Otherwise it's just a fancy KAOSS pad.
Ha HA! Man, that was fucking brilliant. It would suck to work with an Israeli or an Arab and piles of electrical schematics, especially diodes and transistors. Hole flow or electron flow?
San Diego at first glance seems like a paradise - nice year-round weather, healthy citizens, beautiful beaches, a strong tech sector, the occasional Comic-Con...but don't move there.
The place is a mess driven by greedy power-hungry conservatives. It's the number-one place of retirement for FBI agents and a place where steroid-addled Blackwater employees proudly wear Blackwater T-shirts stretched over their massive backs. The Catholic mafia of judges has a deep historical entrenchment there, and the right-wing Christian conservatism is fueled by the vast military presence of Camp Pendleton and Naval Region SW.
Because of that presence, San Diego is the test-bed for a prototype police state as evidenced by the network of cameras and industries such as NSM Surveillance. In fact, I have personally witnessed the police using a helicopter to scare away a few hippies out on the rocks at Sunset Cliffs. Not to mention that the authorities are busting legal medical marijuana shops on the basis of marijuana being illegal as defined by federal law(and yet, they don't try that shit in L.A. or San Francisco).
The universities are waaay overpriced and overcrowded with conservative Asians and other douchebag business majors from states like Iowa. Those douchebags, coupled with the huge number of military, decide to stay in San Diego when they graduate or leave the service. That causes problems with overcrowding and skyrocketting property costs - hell, they're even trying to gentrify Barrio Logan. The douchebag loft-buyers snatch up whatever they can in east San Diego, then they bitch about them having bought condos in fucked up parts of town. Also, yuppies, yuppies, yuppies. There are also lots of immigrants who settled out of the military and then brought their whole families into the country. Their nieces and grandmas are the ones getting those jobs, not you.
-- Epicurius
Oh, and next time you talk to Santa Claus, could you tell them that Haiti needs more milk and cookies?
Thanks, bro.
Too bad, dude:
Here's a picture of her at a party last weekend.
Good, that'll put an end to assholes taking cell phones into the movies and on airplanes.
Canonical example.
> line 1: method magnetoencephalography(java/lang/String;) not found
Pffff...you use a Garmin to go kayaking in the ocean? Lemme guess, you also wear a helmet and a life vest? Yuppie detected.
All ya need is a Frenzy and a paddle, bro. Backpack full of beer optional.
You'll need a hole saw if you want the best resolution.
Aw, shit. Was I just trolled?!
...this does not apply to Mac users, because Mac's don't suffer from drive-by downloads and other malware. My PPC G5 running Safari on Snow Leopard is rock-solid and secure.
People think that Mac's are expensive, but the safety and security alone are reasons to justify the high price. The sleek, advanced looks are just the icing on the cake.