Look, no one said that Rumsfeld won't eat non-Mexican babies, but everyone knows that Mexican babies are the most delicious ones. That's not racist, that's just being a gourmand, and it's a taste he probably picked up eating at the finer restaurants on the beltway with lobbyists.
I would be perfectly happy to be either the architect or the construction worker in a project, but (for projects larger than a sawhorse) those two people SHOULDN'T be the same person. I that sense I sometime would also like to scream "Just let me Code!" instead of dragging me into all sorts of management meetings where people just sit around going "Say, wouldn't a bridge be nice?" First decide THAT you want a bridge, then decide WHERE you want a bridge, only then come to me to be the architect and get someone else to code, or get an architect that then gets me to code
Boy, I don't know how many times I've seen horrible times come around because those with the most technical expertise were not involved in the design/decision making. Specs that make no sense, hardware and software choices that are unmaintainable in the long run, platform choices that the team doesn't have any experience with. Those sorts of meetings may not be that interesting most of the time, but it's better to be involved in the design, because saying "but I just wanted to code" won't make it any more fun to try to implement bad decisions.
It's not the known rules that will get you, it's the unknown ones.
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However, their stuff ain't cheap. A Mercedes S-class will usually cost more than 5 Toyotas. It will probably last as long as 3 or 4. The Mercedes-Benz company is a pipsqueak, compared to Toyota.
Damn! So if I get a Mercedes-Benz S-class, it will run just fine for 45-60 years? Maybe I -should- go with that for my next car, then.
This. I want to know what the 20+, 30+ year outlook is like. I'd be fine with the laser surgery if I knew that there would be no complications from it when I'm 60 or 70.
Is it the same long-distance vision issue? Lasik only fixes long-distance vision, but doesn't affect whether you'll need reading glasses to look at near objects. The short-distance vision issue is just something that will happen with age, independently of whether you have lasik surgery or not.
National parks aren't corporations, and national parks and operating systems on computers aren't the least bit related so you're not going to have a trademark collision.
National parks aren't corporations, though a corporation can and do run the services in a national park.
In the case of Yosemite, its services are supplied by the Delaware North corporation, who also oversee Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon.
Netflix is one of the few companies I actually use where I feel like they do care about making the customer happy, and they will keep features they don't necessarily like that the home user has come to depend on.
See: the fall-out from spinning off the streaming services, multi-user profiles on one paid account, etc.
That goes both ways, though, doesn't it? I don't think anybody has convincingly made any argument about what the separatists, much less Russia, has to gain from this tragic event.
Most people who point the finger at the separatists aren't saying they took down a civilian air liner intentionally. They don't have "anything to gain" from this because the results weren't their intention.
They did have something to gain from shooting down a Ukrainian military plane, though.
Most people who complain about not being able to find a job could find one if they were willing to work for minimum wage.
Not necessarily. If you have a college education, for instance, you're "overqualified" and won't get the job because your new employer will suspect you'll be there only for the very short term.
The FFs designed our system to allow state and local govt to handle most matters because they recognized that local govt was move responsive and accountable
These days pretty much the opposite is the problem. Almost no one knows their city councilmen. They might know who the mayor is, but if they bother to vote, they'll look at all the names of people running for council, for school board, and not know a single one or who to turn to.
Meanwhile, they'll definitely know who the President is, who their US Senator is, and usually who their Governor is.
I'm a social person. I rather like the way I communicate through the Internet with a lot of different people in different areas of the world, none of which would find much use from a 1994-era Internet. I'd rather not just be chatting with a bunch of techies.
On the other hand, I do remember those days, and the overall level of discussion was usually more mature before the Endless September. And newsgroups were the bomb (pre-spam). Fuck website forums, Slashdot not withstanding. >_>
Why unthinkable? Why should free video be so very different from free TV?
Most people I know have rejected the old commercial TV format and use DVRs to skip the commercials. Advertisers have countered by creating commercials that still attract the attention when fast-forwarded, especially movies which put black bars at the top and bottom of the screen with text with the movie title, release, and a twitter hashtag. I'm totally fine with that.
There are a number of sites I'd like to blacklist which have "sponsored links" from my newspaper's website, from cracked, etc. Some are terribly written, some (like answers.com) have adopted an unbelievably annoying, advertising-heavy slide-show design. Click on something like "10 Actors who didn't deserve their Academy Award" and you'll find you have to click 30 times, because each topic gets three slides.. the first a picture and the next two with text (usually just a sentence or two) overlaid over that picture. The slide is, naturally, surrounded by ads, and clicking "next slide" reloads the page with the ads (fortunately quickly from what I've seen).
I have seen this design practice explode in popularity over the last few months. Of course, all the users hate it, and the comments sections have plenty of people complaining about the shitty format. But it does let the website owners claim they delivered lots of ads to the reader!
Also, if "you pay when you click" takes off, look for malware that hijacks browsers and simulates clicks to become prevalent.
The internet does not run on ads. It ran fine before ads and it would run fine afterwards.
Besides would it be that bad to pay for YouTube? I can't imagine they get more than a penny or two per view. If I had to pay around that much per view it'd probably be between a half and one dollar a day. Pay that for no ads AND support the content creators I enjoy? Heck yes!
See also the success of many popular youtubers with patreon and subbable and the like.
You would still get ads. See, you get ads because most people are willing to put up with ads, not because content would be impossible without them. Remember when you just had ABC/CBS/NBC (and maybe FOX) and then cable came around? Oh, we were do dizzy with the promise.. we would subscribe to cable, that would pay for the content, and we could do without advertising, like those Brits and PBS watchers did!
Except that's not what happened. We paid for cable AND we got the ads. Because we were willing to.
I will always use flashblock. I don't use any sort of Adblocking other than that. For websites that complain "please don't block my ads!" I respond "Then don't use flash ads." It's as simple as that.
Advertisement CAPTCHAs have been a thing for years now, just not so widespread. The CAPTCHA will be next to a big banner ad for a product, and you'll be asked to enter the name of the product into the text box to proceed.
Wow, bizarre. I would have laughed at that, but I just saw that for the first time tonight trying to create an account on avsforums. At first I thought "Oh, capcha embedded in a video flash, that's probably a good way to foil spambots... wait. Wait, that's just an ad, the capcha is in plain text just below."
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I have an African Grey, I've seen him humble a pit bull.
Was it with his withering sarcasm?
(African Greys are quite chatty and very intelligent, for those unfamiliar with the breed).
Look, no one said that Rumsfeld won't eat non-Mexican babies, but everyone knows that Mexican babies are the most delicious ones. That's not racist, that's just being a gourmand, and it's a taste he probably picked up eating at the finer restaurants on the beltway with lobbyists.
Who wants to live at 80 or 90? I'm half-hoping to be dead then.
What about synergy? Where is the GOD-DAMNED synergy!? Oh shit, this project is totally going to fail.
It's ok, we already pushed that out to our machines: http://synergy2.sourceforge.ne... .
Synergy is taken care of!
I would be perfectly happy to be either the architect or the construction worker in a project, but (for projects larger than a sawhorse) those two people SHOULDN'T be the same person. I that sense I sometime would also like to scream "Just let me Code!" instead of dragging me into all sorts of management meetings where people just sit around going "Say, wouldn't a bridge be nice?" First decide THAT you want a bridge, then decide WHERE you want a bridge, only then come to me to be the architect and get someone else to code, or get an architect that then gets me to code
Boy, I don't know how many times I've seen horrible times come around because those with the most technical expertise were not involved in the design/decision making. Specs that make no sense, hardware and software choices that are unmaintainable in the long run, platform choices that the team doesn't have any experience with. Those sorts of meetings may not be that interesting most of the time, but it's better to be involved in the design, because saying "but I just wanted to code" won't make it any more fun to try to implement bad decisions.
It's not the known rules that will get you, it's the unknown ones.
However, their stuff ain't cheap. A Mercedes S-class will usually cost more than 5 Toyotas. It will probably last as long as 3 or 4. The Mercedes-Benz company is a pipsqueak, compared to Toyota.
Damn! So if I get a Mercedes-Benz S-class, it will run just fine for 45-60 years? Maybe I -should- go with that for my next car, then.
Mostly because as a general technical rule I don't trust my balls with private institutions unless they're highly regulated
If you go in for Lasik but they end up operating on your balls, I think there's a real problem there.
This. I want to know what the 20+, 30+ year outlook is like. I'd be fine with the laser surgery if I knew that there would be no complications from it when I'm 60 or 70.
Is it the same long-distance vision issue?
Lasik only fixes long-distance vision, but doesn't affect whether you'll need reading glasses to look at near objects. The short-distance vision issue is just something that will happen with age, independently of whether you have lasik surgery or not.
National parks aren't corporations, and national parks and operating systems on computers aren't the least bit related so you're not going to have a trademark collision.
National parks aren't corporations, though a corporation can and do run the services in a national park.
In the case of Yosemite, its services are supplied by the Delaware North corporation, who also oversee Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon.
Netflix is one of the few companies I actually use where I feel like they do care about making the customer happy, and they will keep features they don't necessarily like that the home user has come to depend on.
See: the fall-out from spinning off the streaming services, multi-user profiles on one paid account, etc.
A+++++ would order SAMs for revolution again.
That goes both ways, though, doesn't it? I don't think anybody has convincingly made any argument about what the separatists, much less Russia, has to gain from this tragic event.
Most people who point the finger at the separatists aren't saying they took down a civilian air liner intentionally. They don't have "anything to gain" from this because the results weren't their intention.
They did have something to gain from shooting down a Ukrainian military plane, though.
Wow. Just... wow.
This really isn't a good day for you, is it AC?
Perhaps you need a bit more training in propaganda techniques -- doesn't seem like the first class took very well.
Most people who complain about not being able to find a job could find one if they were willing to work for minimum wage.
Not necessarily. If you have a college education, for instance, you're "overqualified" and won't get the job because your new employer will suspect you'll be there only for the very short term.
The FFs designed our system to allow state and local govt to handle most matters because they recognized that local govt was move responsive and accountable
These days pretty much the opposite is the problem. Almost no one knows their city councilmen. They might know who the mayor is, but if they bother to vote, they'll look at all the names of people running for council, for school board, and not know a single one or who to turn to.
Meanwhile, they'll definitely know who the President is, who their US Senator is, and usually who their Governor is.
Mexico is no longer a net source of immigration (as many Mexicans return home as arrive).
So they cross the border, grab a bunch of cash, and go back.
Hell, that's worse than immigrating and staying.
I'm a social person. I rather like the way I communicate through the Internet with a lot of different people in different areas of the world, none of which would find much use from a 1994-era Internet. I'd rather not just be chatting with a bunch of techies.
On the other hand, I do remember those days, and the overall level of discussion was usually more mature before the Endless September. And newsgroups were the bomb (pre-spam). Fuck website forums, Slashdot not withstanding. >_>
Why unthinkable? Why should free video be so very different from free TV?
Most people I know have rejected the old commercial TV format and use DVRs to skip the commercials. Advertisers have countered by creating commercials that still attract the attention when fast-forwarded, especially movies which put black bars at the top and bottom of the screen with text with the movie title, release, and a twitter hashtag. I'm totally fine with that.
There are a number of sites I'd like to blacklist which have "sponsored links" from my newspaper's website, from cracked, etc. Some are terribly written, some (like answers.com) have adopted an unbelievably annoying, advertising-heavy slide-show design. Click on something like "10 Actors who didn't deserve their Academy Award" and you'll find you have to click 30 times, because each topic gets three slides.. the first a picture and the next two with text (usually just a sentence or two) overlaid over that picture. The slide is, naturally, surrounded by ads, and clicking "next slide" reloads the page with the ads (fortunately quickly from what I've seen).
I have seen this design practice explode in popularity over the last few months. Of course, all the users hate it, and the comments sections have plenty of people complaining about the shitty format. But it does let the website owners claim they delivered lots of ads to the reader!
Also, if "you pay when you click" takes off, look for malware that hijacks browsers and simulates clicks to become prevalent.
The internet does not run on ads. It ran fine before ads and it would run fine afterwards.
Besides would it be that bad to pay for YouTube? I can't imagine they get more than a penny or two per view. If I had to pay around that much per view it'd probably be between a half and one dollar a day. Pay that for no ads AND support the content creators I enjoy? Heck yes!
See also the success of many popular youtubers with patreon and subbable and the like.
You would still get ads.
See, you get ads because most people are willing to put up with ads, not because content would be impossible without them. Remember when you just had ABC/CBS/NBC (and maybe FOX) and then cable came around? Oh, we were do dizzy with the promise.. we would subscribe to cable, that would pay for the content, and we could do without advertising, like those Brits and PBS watchers did!
Except that's not what happened. We paid for cable AND we got the ads. Because we were willing to.
I will always use flashblock. I don't use any sort of Adblocking other than that. For websites that complain "please don't block my ads!" I respond "Then don't use flash ads." It's as simple as that.
Advertisement CAPTCHAs have been a thing for years now, just not so widespread. The CAPTCHA will be next to a big banner ad for a product, and you'll be asked to enter the name of the product into the text box to proceed.
Wow, bizarre. I would have laughed at that, but I just saw that for the first time tonight trying to create an account on avsforums. At first I thought "Oh, capcha embedded in a video flash, that's probably a good way to foil spambots... wait. Wait, that's just an ad, the capcha is in plain text just below."
Ugh.
Are you going to include John Kerry and Hilary Clinton for voting to support GWB on Iraq?
Please don't tease.