If computer programmer Barbie involves the girl doing some design, but the actual coding being done by boys.
It was worse than that, Computer Engineer Barbie said: " 'I'm only creating the design ideas,' Barbie says, laughing. 'I'll need Steven's and Brian's help to turn it into a real game.' " Barbie then gets a virus on the computer, which then infects another computer, and the boys wind up fixing it for her. After class, Barbie meets with Steven and Brian in the library. " 'Hi, guys,' says Barbie. 'I tried to send you my designs, but I ended up crashing my laptop — and Skipper's, too! I need to get back the lost files and repair both of our laptops.' " 'It will go faster if Brian and I help,' offers Steven." Brian and Steven take over — and, at the end of the day, Barbie takes credit for the boys' work.
Note that this wasn't an actual Barbie, it was a book "Barbie: I can be a computer engineer". Amusingly enough on the book cover it had a computer monitor with a bunch of 1s and 0s, and a Tux Penguin sitting underneath it! Picture Here
Throw the damn pitch already; it shouldn't take two minutes to toss a ball 60'6".
It shouldn't, and the MLB is experimenting with fining pitchers if they take excessive amounts out time. Batters have to keep their feet in the box, no wandering away anymore and rechecking their gloves, cleats, etc.
Here are experiments they've tried: 1) Revising rule 8.04, requiring the pitcher to deliver the ball to the batter within 12 seconds after he recieves the ball with the bases unoccupied. A violation is an automatic "ball" from the umpire. If the batter steps out of the box during the 20-second period (they had a clock on the field), the pitcher may deliver the pitch and the umpire may call a strike, unless the batter was first granted time by the umpire. 2) Batter's Box Rule: batter must keep at least one foot in the batter's box unless a predefined exception occurs. 3) No-pitch intentional walks. You want to intentionally walk someone? Just say you walk him and it's done. If a pitcher has control problems though, he can screw up an intentional walk, which I've seen in person. This would sadly eliminate that situation too. 4) 2:30 inning break clock. 5) 2:30 pitching change break clock. 6) Three "time out" limit.
#4 and #5 are opposed by TV networks because it cuts down on the number of commercials they run. Major league players had difficulty adjusting to the rule changes, so the rules are going to be rolled out in the lower leagues first: first Double-A baseball, then Triple-A, then the MLB. Unfortunately it's not yet a given that all these rules will enter the MLB. However, in having them enforced in the minor leagues first, major leaguers will get used to them.
We had a pretty good 20 years in the phone industry since Ma Bell was broken up. Lots of competition, new services, better prices.
I used to use PacBell DSL Internet and it was pretty good! (for the time) Then they got bought by SBC and they were not.. quite as good, but still ok. Then SBC bought AT&T, but apparently AT&T absorbed and corrupted them from within, becoming the AT&T behemoth once again, and their DSL service went to shit. As did their billing department.
Thank to all the media blunders, Trump is more powerful now than he ever was as a simple business man.
Trump is done. He won't be President, but worse than that (for him), it destroys his credibility as a businessman. He's now a "toxic figure." Other businesses won't be willing to book conferences at Trump hotels since he's too partisan a figure now. He needed to be non-partisan as a businessman, since you can't afford to piss off a large proportion of the country without getting anything for it.
Who will want to do business with Donald Trump now when there are so many other successful businessmen without the political baggage?
I think the "bright" themes were made for high-light situations. Lots of harsh office lights or outdoors work. If you work in a dimmer environment, the bright things are way too hard, but if I'm outside on a laptop or phone, the "dark" themes are pretty illegible.
it doesn't matter the OS when the website mixes em, %, and px for sizing. you can still find plenty of sites with px defined left/right margins.
I'm not sure why this was modded troll. The above is true to a point, though it doesn't tell the whole story. These days I find most web sites use images (blank, or bg color) to create spacing, and most web browsers, by default, scale images up as well along with the text, so those spacers get scaled up along with the text.
My biggest problem is with websites that enforce a traditional page-style format for their pages, such that when you scale things up to make it easier to read, it's like you're just taking a magnifying glass to the page. That's way too rigid a page design, but it fits squarely in the aesthetics of someone who used to do traditional layout on paper pages.
Do you really need a 2560 x 1600 Pixel screen on your 10 Inch Android or whatever-pad?
If your DPI is set properly, the display will look much better at higher resolutions, and that includes the readability of the fonts. Anti-aliasing doesn't become quite as necessary, and fonts will be just a bit less blurry.
If a high resolution means you're seeing tiny fonts, then the system is not taking DPI into account, and it needs to no matter what size your monitor is.
You pay for a concert, but that does not make you the employer, any more than buying an item at a convenience store means you "employ" the shopkeeper, nor does paying taxes mean you can order around the guys fixing potholes.
There is a point where sensitivity turns into entitlement stupidity
There's certainly a line to be drawn. People talking on their cell phone, or just talking over the movie, shining lights around the theater, etc: not cool. Someone needs to get up to pee, or a doctor has to leave? Don't see why I should have a problem with it.
As I pointed out, Gitmo breaks international treaties
A very very large segment of the US does not particularly care about international treaties, they care only about US law. And yet since it's not in the US, they find ways to dismiss that problem too.
Since 9/11, the citizens of the US have been pretty willing to compromise previously-dearly-held ideas like prisoner torture since for them, the gloves come off when they're facing terrorists. Jack Bauer was their hero. They don't particularly care about "international opinion."
This is a very common criticism against Wikileaks. And a very strange one.
Wikileaks can only release material that someone leaks to them. Feel free to send insider stuff on Trump to them and see what happens.
I would agree with that if Assange hadn't publicly crowed about having damaging leaks against Russia, leaks that he simply... stopped talking about after Sweden filed its charges and Putin started making supporting statements about him. Once this bizarre assault/conspiracy stuff crept into the conversation, it seemed like Assange became far more interested in taking down Clinton than.. well, anything else.
It isn't the Republicans that used the Federal Government to forced Ecuador to silence a vocal critic of the party's candidate.
It isn't? Are you sure? What proof do you have? The same amount of proof that you had that the Democrats forced Ecuador to take Assange offline? IE, you have no proof at all?
Ecuador's actions are reasonable from a neutrality point of view. It doesn't want to be on Trump's side or on Clinton's side. Assange has been vocal in his desire to see Hillary go down, and Ecuador does not want to get drawn into that. If you have a houseguest who embarrasses you with prank calls, you yank phone access if you don't kick him out.
Colluding media? The media gave Trump everything he needed. He would say some wild, half-assed thing and they gave him all the exposure he needed. Trump would not have gotten anywhere were it not for the media which were falling over themselves to cover whatever he said or posted to Twitter. It was like a horrifying, RL version of Bulworth.
Trump was labeled anti-Hispanic because he wants to close the border with Mexico and correct the illegal immigration issue (uh oh, I used the bad phrase)
Trump was labeled anti-Hispanic because he said that the people coming from Mexico were rapists and murderers, and maybe a few of them were ok. He was also labeled anti-Hispanic because he said that a US citizen of Hispanic descent couldn't possibly be impartial.
He talked about Obama's birth certificate which somehow landed him as a racist but ignores the Hillary camp who ran the same story before Trump
Hillary never ran with that story. Not at all.
The story was created by a former Clinton volunteer who sent a chain email when Obama overtook Hillary in the primaries, and we have no evidence that Hillary ever ran with it or repeated it. Only another of Trump's baseless, factless assertions. You could say that since it came from someone who used to volunteer for Hillary that Clinton is responsible, but that then opens you up to every candidate being responsible for everything that any staffer or any volunteer or worker or supporter ever says, even after they leave the campaign.
I won't even bother with your attempt of trying to paper over clear cases of sexual assault. That's just disgusting, and everyone on the conservative side was right to distance themselves from him.
Every countries citizens have the right to decide what other countries citizens are allowed into the country and what vetting requirements are required to allow entry and how long they are allowed to stay.
Not according to the immigration activists I've talked to. Many of them truly, openly believe that it's a human right for people to live wherever, whenever they want, crossing whatever border they need to to get to where they want to settle. For them, border control, immigration policy, etc are crimes against humanity. Some of them don't go quite that far, but will still treat "the family" unit's considerations as overriding the will of the country -- IE, no breaking up the family to send an illegal immigrant back home. Agriculture companies (there are almost no 'family farms' left) don't have those philosophical leanings, but they look the other way because they love being able to pay 3rd-world wages in the United States.
Move over to Hillary? Why? Because her political plank issues don't match you in any way, BUT AT LEAST SHE SUPPOSEDLY HASN'T EVER TOLD A SEX JOKE!
Dropping Trump does not mean you suddenly become a Hillary supporter.
Basically if you drop candidates over a single issue, you have NO candidate in very VERY short order.
At what point does this view break down? "Well, we know that he wants to start a nuclear war with Russia and China, but hey, that's just one issue, and I agree with him on abortion and tax policy so... I guess it would be dumb just to drop him over one issue, like that 'nuclear armageddon' thing."
They're not even interested in diversity of race. Do you honestly think that SJW's are going to push for more "diversity" at black-owned companies that only hire black people? Methinks the Cubs will win the World Series before that ever happens.
The Cubs are the favorites to win the World Series this year. >_>
"Puritan work ethic" is what built our current farm productivity and infrastructure, but it's gone. It has not been in evidence in the majority for a couple of decades at least. People will not work for next to nothing. They'll work if it makes the difference between a concrete block apartment and a nice condo or place in the suburbs in the yard, but that's not a work ethic, it's pure selfishness. We'll do a lot better as a society if we count on people to be self-interested than we will if we count on the continued after-effects of Puritanism, which have been on the wane for a long time.
When the Puritans were actually around, the "puritan work ethic" was necessary to keep from dying under the harsh New England winters. It was a survival tactic.
I more than half suspect that the problem is coaches such as Mr. Belichick (not having grown up on a continuous diet of technology) either don't know how to effectively use the technology or (more likely) expect the technology to do a better job of implementing the "dwiw()"* function.
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* dwiw() - Do What I Want (null function - a return code should be unnecessary)
From the summary, it sounds very much like he hates the problem that most computers and handhelds and tablets and apps have these days -- they are slow. They are unresponsive. The contact databases that are slow. They connect to networks that are overloaded and are slow.
These are devices used under circumstances where instantaneous response is not an reasonable demand. If every operation is.. is.... is........ connecting... connecting, syncing, please wait... yeah, I would want to throw it against the wall too.
Then pair that with the environment, where the devices are given to them at game time, a high-pressure time when you can't debug them, yet that's the only time they could be debugged, and you have a recipe for failure.
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If computer programmer Barbie involves the girl doing some design, but the actual coding being done by boys.
It was worse than that, Computer Engineer Barbie said:
" 'I'm only creating the design ideas,' Barbie says, laughing. 'I'll need Steven's and Brian's help to turn it into a real game.' "
Barbie then gets a virus on the computer, which then infects another computer, and the boys wind up fixing it for her.
After class, Barbie meets with Steven and Brian in the library.
" 'Hi, guys,' says Barbie. 'I tried to send you my designs, but I ended up crashing my laptop — and Skipper's, too! I need to get back the lost files and repair both of our laptops.'
" 'It will go faster if Brian and I help,' offers Steven."
Brian and Steven take over — and, at the end of the day, Barbie takes credit for the boys' work.
Note that this wasn't an actual Barbie, it was a book "Barbie: I can be a computer engineer". Amusingly enough on the book cover it had a computer monitor with a bunch of 1s and 0s, and a Tux Penguin sitting underneath it!
Picture Here
Throw the damn pitch already; it shouldn't take two minutes to toss a ball 60'6".
It shouldn't, and the MLB is experimenting with fining pitchers if they take excessive amounts out time. Batters have to keep their feet in the box, no wandering away anymore and rechecking their gloves, cleats, etc.
Here are experiments they've tried:
1) Revising rule 8.04, requiring the pitcher to deliver the ball to the batter within 12 seconds after he recieves the ball with the bases unoccupied. A violation is an automatic "ball" from the umpire. If the batter steps out of the box during the 20-second period (they had a clock on the field), the pitcher may deliver the pitch and the umpire may call a strike, unless the batter was first granted time by the umpire.
2) Batter's Box Rule: batter must keep at least one foot in the batter's box unless a predefined exception occurs.
3) No-pitch intentional walks. You want to intentionally walk someone? Just say you walk him and it's done. If a pitcher has control problems though, he can screw up an intentional walk, which I've seen in person. This would sadly eliminate that situation too.
4) 2:30 inning break clock.
5) 2:30 pitching change break clock.
6) Three "time out" limit.
#4 and #5 are opposed by TV networks because it cuts down on the number of commercials they run. Major league players had difficulty adjusting to the rule changes, so the rules are going to be rolled out in the lower leagues first: first Double-A baseball, then Triple-A, then the MLB. Unfortunately it's not yet a given that all these rules will enter the MLB. However, in having them enforced in the minor leagues first, major leaguers will get used to them.
Fuck off with your "soh-cher", it's football, it's the biggest game in the world,
Doesn't really say much for tastes of the people in the rest of the world. You can have it.
We had a pretty good 20 years in the phone industry since Ma Bell was broken up. Lots of competition, new services, better prices.
I used to use PacBell DSL Internet and it was pretty good! (for the time)
Then they got bought by SBC and they were not.. quite as good, but still ok.
Then SBC bought AT&T, but apparently AT&T absorbed and corrupted them from within, becoming the AT&T behemoth once again, and their DSL service went to shit. As did their billing department.
Thank to all the media blunders, Trump is more powerful now than he ever was as a simple business man.
Trump is done. He won't be President, but worse than that (for him), it destroys his credibility as a businessman. He's now a "toxic figure." Other businesses won't be willing to book conferences at Trump hotels since he's too partisan a figure now. He needed to be non-partisan as a businessman, since you can't afford to piss off a large proportion of the country without getting anything for it.
Who will want to do business with Donald Trump now when there are so many other successful businessmen without the political baggage?
I think the "bright" themes were made for high-light situations. Lots of harsh office lights or outdoors work. If you work in a dimmer environment, the bright things are way too hard, but if I'm outside on a laptop or phone, the "dark" themes are pretty illegible.
I prefer bright text on a darker background myself. At least in low-light situations it's far easier on the eyes than a white background.
it doesn't matter the OS when the website mixes em, %, and px for sizing. you can still find plenty of sites with px defined left/right margins.
I'm not sure why this was modded troll. The above is true to a point, though it doesn't tell the whole story. These days I find most web sites use images (blank, or bg color) to create spacing, and most web browsers, by default, scale images up as well along with the text, so those spacers get scaled up along with the text.
My biggest problem is with websites that enforce a traditional page-style format for their pages, such that when you scale things up to make it easier to read, it's like you're just taking a magnifying glass to the page. That's way too rigid a page design, but it fits squarely in the aesthetics of someone who used to do traditional layout on paper pages.
Do you really need a 2560 x 1600 Pixel screen on your 10 Inch Android or whatever-pad?
If your DPI is set properly, the display will look much better at higher resolutions, and that includes the readability of the fonts. Anti-aliasing doesn't become quite as necessary, and fonts will be just a bit less blurry.
If a high resolution means you're seeing tiny fonts, then the system is not taking DPI into account, and it needs to no matter what size your monitor is.
You pay for a concert, but that does not make you the employer, any more than buying an item at a convenience store means you "employ" the shopkeeper, nor does paying taxes mean you can order around the guys fixing potholes.
There is a point where sensitivity turns into entitlement stupidity
There's certainly a line to be drawn. People talking on their cell phone, or just talking over the movie, shining lights around the theater, etc: not cool.
Someone needs to get up to pee, or a doctor has to leave? Don't see why I should have a problem with it.
As I pointed out, Gitmo breaks international treaties
A very very large segment of the US does not particularly care about international treaties, they care only about US law. And yet since it's not in the US, they find ways to dismiss that problem too.
Since 9/11, the citizens of the US have been pretty willing to compromise previously-dearly-held ideas like prisoner torture since for them, the gloves come off when they're facing terrorists. Jack Bauer was their hero. They don't particularly care about "international opinion."
2) He is providing records only of one side.
This is a very common criticism against Wikileaks. And a very strange one.
Wikileaks can only release material that someone leaks to them. Feel free to send insider stuff on Trump to them and see what happens.
I would agree with that if Assange hadn't publicly crowed about having damaging leaks against Russia, leaks that he simply... stopped talking about after Sweden filed its charges and Putin started making supporting statements about him. Once this bizarre assault/conspiracy stuff crept into the conversation, it seemed like Assange became far more interested in taking down Clinton than.. well, anything else.
It isn't the Republicans that used the Federal Government to forced Ecuador to silence a vocal critic of the party's candidate.
It isn't? Are you sure? What proof do you have? The same amount of proof that you had that the Democrats forced Ecuador to take Assange offline? IE, you have no proof at all?
Ecuador's actions are reasonable from a neutrality point of view. It doesn't want to be on Trump's side or on Clinton's side. Assange has been vocal in his desire to see Hillary go down, and Ecuador does not want to get drawn into that. If you have a houseguest who embarrasses you with prank calls, you yank phone access if you don't kick him out.
but a colluding media
Colluding media? The media gave Trump everything he needed. He would say some wild, half-assed thing and they gave him all the exposure he needed.
Trump would not have gotten anywhere were it not for the media which were falling over themselves to cover whatever he said or posted to Twitter.
It was like a horrifying, RL version of Bulworth.
Is he wrong?
Pretty clearly, yes?
Trump was labeled anti-Hispanic because he wants to close the border with Mexico and correct the illegal immigration issue (uh oh, I used the bad phrase)
Trump was labeled anti-Hispanic because he said that the people coming from Mexico were rapists and murderers, and maybe a few of them were ok. He was also labeled anti-Hispanic because he said that a US citizen of Hispanic descent couldn't possibly be impartial.
He talked about Obama's birth certificate which somehow landed him as a racist but ignores the Hillary camp who ran the same story before Trump
Hillary never ran with that story. Not at all.
The story was created by a former Clinton volunteer who sent a chain email when Obama overtook Hillary in the primaries, and we have no evidence that Hillary ever ran with it or repeated it. Only another of Trump's baseless, factless assertions. You could say that since it came from someone who used to volunteer for Hillary that Clinton is responsible, but that then opens you up to every candidate being responsible for everything that any staffer or any volunteer or worker or supporter ever says, even after they leave the campaign.
I won't even bother with your attempt of trying to paper over clear cases of sexual assault. That's just disgusting, and everyone on the conservative side was right to distance themselves from him.
Every countries citizens have the right to decide what other countries citizens are allowed into the country and what vetting requirements are required to allow entry and how long they are allowed to stay.
Not according to the immigration activists I've talked to. Many of them truly, openly believe that it's a human right for people to live wherever, whenever they want, crossing whatever border they need to to get to where they want to settle. For them, border control, immigration policy, etc are crimes against humanity. Some of them don't go quite that far, but will still treat "the family" unit's considerations as overriding the will of the country -- IE, no breaking up the family to send an illegal immigrant back home. Agriculture companies (there are almost no 'family farms' left) don't have those philosophical leanings, but they look the other way because they love being able to pay 3rd-world wages in the United States.
That's what you're really up against.
Move over to Hillary? Why? Because her political plank issues don't match you in any way, BUT AT LEAST SHE SUPPOSEDLY HASN'T EVER TOLD A SEX JOKE!
Dropping Trump does not mean you suddenly become a Hillary supporter.
Basically if you drop candidates over a single issue, you have NO candidate in very VERY short order.
At what point does this view break down?
"Well, we know that he wants to start a nuclear war with Russia and China, but hey, that's just one issue, and I agree with him on abortion and tax policy so... I guess it would be dumb just to drop him over one issue, like that 'nuclear armageddon' thing."
Remember, Bill Clinton, who is a known rapist - and not just statutory, I mean actual beat her, chew her face, rip off her clothes type rapist
Lol. You guys are funny.
But you know, every time I think that as a society we've gotten smarter, folks come out during events like this election that convince me otherwise.
They're not even interested in diversity of race. Do you honestly think that SJW's are going to push for more "diversity" at black-owned companies that only hire black people? Methinks the Cubs will win the World Series before that ever happens.
The Cubs are the favorites to win the World Series this year. >_>
"Puritan work ethic" is what built our current farm productivity and infrastructure, but it's gone. It has not been in evidence in the majority for a couple of decades at least. People will not work for next to nothing. They'll work if it makes the difference between a concrete block apartment and a nice condo or place in the suburbs in the yard, but that's not a work ethic, it's pure selfishness. We'll do a lot better as a society if we count on people to be self-interested than we will if we count on the continued after-effects of Puritanism, which have been on the wane for a long time.
When the Puritans were actually around, the "puritan work ethic" was necessary to keep from dying under the harsh New England winters. It was a survival tactic.
But they're definitely in the TOP HALF of "Your Team Sucks" discussions!
I more than half suspect that the problem is coaches such as Mr. Belichick (not having grown up on a continuous diet of technology) either don't know how to effectively use the technology or (more likely) expect the technology to do a better job of implementing the "dwiw()"* function.
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* dwiw() - Do What I Want (null function - a return code should be unnecessary)
From the summary, it sounds very much like he hates the problem that most computers and handhelds and tablets and apps have these days -- they are slow. They are unresponsive. The contact databases that are slow. They connect to networks that are overloaded and are slow.
These are devices used under circumstances where instantaneous response is not an reasonable demand. If every operation is.. is.... is........ connecting... connecting, syncing, please wait... yeah, I would want to throw it against the wall too.
Then pair that with the environment, where the devices are given to them at game time, a high-pressure time when you can't debug them, yet that's the only time they could be debugged, and you have a recipe for failure.
He was probably a Final Fantasy 12 player.