What it usually means is they've already got a warrant for your arrest... and at this point you've got two choices - hide / run, or turn yourself in. He wisely chose the latter. The court doesn't like it when the law actually has to chase you down.
For reference, watch Dave Chappelle's bit on what it'd be like if black people got treated like white people regarding similar situations.
Small claims doesn't require a lawyer, and most people in small claims don't get one. You can only sue for up to something like $5,000 in small claims. It costs that much just to look a a lawyer. It's not worth hiring one to argue over the couple hundred bucks you're getting sued for. So... you're wrong.
Resistance is futile? I don't think so. A cell phone is completely different than facebook. A cell is just a way to get a hold of you anywhere instead of a way to only get you when you're at home or leave you a message.
I don't have a facebook, or a myspace, or any of that crap. It's totally unnecessary and it's a ridiculous tether. Then you have to check that crap all the time and people get mad if you don't. If your friends will only hang out with you if you have that crap, they aren't real friends. Get new ones.
Oh man, it's space! It won't take much for them to "fill" it. It'll be floating *everywhere*... The real problem is that the cameraman and the director are going to have to want to be involved as much as the actresses. Because unless they're wearing head-to-toe space suits... some of that crap is coming their way.
I don't know about you guys but I just don't even want to have to think about money when I'm playing a game. I'm playing a game to relax.
Leveling up is fun... until you realize oh, wait, next level I get the awesome bazooka but I have to pay $10 for it. Lame. This wouldn't interest me for the same reason subscriptions wouldn't interest me - I just want to buy a game once and play it whenever I want.
That would be incredible. I'm looking forward to Mirror's Edge because it's unique not only in concept (parkour / free running) but also because they essentially made an FPS without the "S". That's not to say I haven't enjoyed gobs of FPS games, but it's always nice to play something completely fresh.
I agree, I've almost never solved a problem by just banging my head against it. Usually going for a walk or just taking 10 minutes away from my PC gives me time to think of a new way to tackle it. This obviously only applies for those complex issues that come up a few times a week... not "what should I have for lunch today".
Exactly. Maybe they should have also asked how many people even gave a rip if their phone HAD a camera? The pictures from cell phones SUCK. Mine obviously has one and I never use it unless I've got nothing else and I MUST have a picture (did that once for a car accident).
Flash has been bad that way ever since it was originally created. I remember having to scale back Flash applications many times because too much stuff moving on the screen meant horrible performance. Smooth animation on your dev PC looked awful on something just a year older. The prevalence of games, animation and movies has only made it more obvious. Hardware acceleration for Flash is long overdue.
Backwards compatibility has crippled windows. They really do need to just switch over to virtualization for old software. They've already had a myriad of versions of Virtual PC out there for free... they just need to integrate it into the OS and run old apps in there. I guarantee you that there are devs at microsoft that would *kill* for the freedom to throw away backward compatibility. When you read stories about the crap they do to make old stuff work on their new OS's it melts your brain.
That's all well and good... but the whole point of free TV is that it's free! I don't even have a huge antenna - just some free rabbit ears I got from a friend. Good points though and they're certainly something I'll have to consider once things do finally switch over!
Out of curiosity - how quickly does it deteriorate? My house is only about 4 years old and the development I live in is about the same age.
Getting the game initially is easy, but more importantly... updates are incredibly simple! You never worry about downloading the latest patches... steam does it for you.
I had never thought of this until I went through the freaking nightmare that is updating Company of Heroes. Downloading 5 different patches and applying them consecutively with no information about how to do it is absolutely horrible. The first time through I botched it and had to reinstall. Ugh.
Which is awesome, because every time they're about to fire it up we can use the "come on baby, tomorrow could be the end of the world... they're firing up the LHC..." line.
I'm worried about this happening where I'm at. I'm not in a major city, but I'm able to pick up channels with strong signals from nearby cities. They're a little fuzzy but they're watchable. A few of them have had PSA's lately stating that they'd be reducing their power but that it "wouldn't affect your signal". Yeah, right... b.s. it won't. When they halve the power I'll be lucky if it even reaches me anymore.
Why don't I have cable? I don't know, maybe because supporting comcast makes me cringe.
Huh? How does it take any work?
if(confirm("Are you stupid?")) {//hax!} else {//more hax!}
Putting code in the else statement isn't any more work than putting it in the original if statement.
Note: I realize people aren't using simple confirm boxes but the concept is the same.
Laptops are the worst. Users treat them like personal property rather than company property and inevitably they get thrashed. I saw the pins for connection to a docking station get absolutely destroyed when someone just slammed their notebook down onto the dock without even trying to properly line the thing up. As long as there are "rock and roll" (cake reference) idiots breaking their laptops there will be IT workers replacing them.
I never understood how SQL injection happened on major sites until it happened to someone I know. (wow that sounded like a bad plug for some unknown disease... anyway...) Initially he absolutely refused to believe that it was SQL injection because, "His application wasn't vulnerable to that!". Finally, in the face of overwhelming truth it dawned on him that it was... so what happened? Oh, the database got cleaned up from a back up... but no code was changed. Then they did it again a short while later and he caught a clue and fixed it up. So, sadly... I've seen people do the same thing - it happens.
Imagine if I got a phishing email that included my home address? What difference does it make what information it contains? It's still obviously a phishing email and I'm still just going to forward a copy on to abuse @ whatever domain they're impersonating and then dump it in the spam folder.
I still don't understand how phishing actually works on anyone... once you understand a basic concept - never follow links from emails that are soliciting information - you'll be fine. I guess people are just hopelessly uneducated about it.
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What it usually means is they've already got a warrant for your arrest... and at this point you've got two choices - hide / run, or turn yourself in. He wisely chose the latter. The court doesn't like it when the law actually has to chase you down.
For reference, watch Dave Chappelle's bit on what it'd be like if black people got treated like white people regarding similar situations.
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Small claims doesn't require a lawyer, and most people in small claims don't get one. You can only sue for up to something like $5,000 in small claims. It costs that much just to look a a lawyer. It's not worth hiring one to argue over the couple hundred bucks you're getting sued for. So... you're wrong.
Resistance is futile? I don't think so. A cell phone is completely different than facebook. A cell is just a way to get a hold of you anywhere instead of a way to only get you when you're at home or leave you a message.
I don't have a facebook, or a myspace, or any of that crap. It's totally unnecessary and it's a ridiculous tether. Then you have to check that crap all the time and people get mad if you don't. If your friends will only hang out with you if you have that crap, they aren't real friends. Get new ones.
I wanted to mod parent but there's no, "depressing but true" choice.
I thought only the TSA searched for volumes hidden there.
Oh man, it's space! It won't take much for them to "fill" it. It'll be floating *everywhere*... The real problem is that the cameraman and the director are going to have to want to be involved as much as the actresses. Because unless they're wearing head-to-toe space suits... some of that crap is coming their way.
I don't know about you guys but I just don't even want to have to think about money when I'm playing a game. I'm playing a game to relax.
Leveling up is fun... until you realize oh, wait, next level I get the awesome bazooka but I have to pay $10 for it. Lame. This wouldn't interest me for the same reason subscriptions wouldn't interest me - I just want to buy a game once and play it whenever I want.
That would be incredible. I'm looking forward to Mirror's Edge because it's unique not only in concept (parkour / free running) but also because they essentially made an FPS without the "S". That's not to say I haven't enjoyed gobs of FPS games, but it's always nice to play something completely fresh.
I agree, I've almost never solved a problem by just banging my head against it. Usually going for a walk or just taking 10 minutes away from my PC gives me time to think of a new way to tackle it. This obviously only applies for those complex issues that come up a few times a week... not "what should I have for lunch today".
Exactly. Maybe they should have also asked how many people even gave a rip if their phone HAD a camera? The pictures from cell phones SUCK. Mine obviously has one and I never use it unless I've got nothing else and I MUST have a picture (did that once for a car accident).
ZOMG PONIES! If (insert random technological feat) happened then Linux would rule the desktop for sure! Yeah!
Sorry... I couldn't resist. That post made almost no sense and there's always one post like that in every thread.
Flash has been bad that way ever since it was originally created. I remember having to scale back Flash applications many times because too much stuff moving on the screen meant horrible performance. Smooth animation on your dev PC looked awful on something just a year older. The prevalence of games, animation and movies has only made it more obvious. Hardware acceleration for Flash is long overdue.
Backwards compatibility has crippled windows. They really do need to just switch over to virtualization for old software. They've already had a myriad of versions of Virtual PC out there for free... they just need to integrate it into the OS and run old apps in there. I guarantee you that there are devs at microsoft that would *kill* for the freedom to throw away backward compatibility. When you read stories about the crap they do to make old stuff work on their new OS's it melts your brain.
That's all well and good... but the whole point of free TV is that it's free! I don't even have a huge antenna - just some free rabbit ears I got from a friend. Good points though and they're certainly something I'll have to consider once things do finally switch over!
Out of curiosity - how quickly does it deteriorate? My house is only about 4 years old and the development I live in is about the same age.
Getting the game initially is easy, but more importantly... updates are incredibly simple! You never worry about downloading the latest patches... steam does it for you.
I had never thought of this until I went through the freaking nightmare that is updating Company of Heroes. Downloading 5 different patches and applying them consecutively with no information about how to do it is absolutely horrible. The first time through I botched it and had to reinstall. Ugh.
Which is awesome, because every time they're about to fire it up we can use the "come on baby, tomorrow could be the end of the world... they're firing up the LHC..." line.
I'm worried about this happening where I'm at. I'm not in a major city, but I'm able to pick up channels with strong signals from nearby cities. They're a little fuzzy but they're watchable. A few of them have had PSA's lately stating that they'd be reducing their power but that it "wouldn't affect your signal". Yeah, right... b.s. it won't. When they halve the power I'll be lucky if it even reaches me anymore.
Why don't I have cable? I don't know, maybe because supporting comcast makes me cringe.
Huh? How does it take any work?
if(confirm("Are you stupid?")) {//hax!} else {//more hax!}
Putting code in the else statement isn't any more work than putting it in the original if statement.
Note: I realize people aren't using simple confirm boxes but the concept is the same.
I would... but I hate attics and crawl spaces.
Laptops are the worst. Users treat them like personal property rather than company property and inevitably they get thrashed. I saw the pins for connection to a docking station get absolutely destroyed when someone just slammed their notebook down onto the dock without even trying to properly line the thing up. As long as there are "rock and roll" (cake reference) idiots breaking their laptops there will be IT workers replacing them.
He obviously won't be getting a job anywhere else in the industry again. No one's going to hire a guy that's going to steal your IP when he leaves.
I never understood how SQL injection happened on major sites until it happened to someone I know. (wow that sounded like a bad plug for some unknown disease... anyway...) Initially he absolutely refused to believe that it was SQL injection because, "His application wasn't vulnerable to that!". Finally, in the face of overwhelming truth it dawned on him that it was... so what happened? Oh, the database got cleaned up from a back up... but no code was changed. Then they did it again a short while later and he caught a clue and fixed it up. So, sadly... I've seen people do the same thing - it happens.
Good advice!
Imagine if I got a phishing email that included my home address? What difference does it make what information it contains? It's still obviously a phishing email and I'm still just going to forward a copy on to abuse @ whatever domain they're impersonating and then dump it in the spam folder.
I still don't understand how phishing actually works on anyone... once you understand a basic concept - never follow links from emails that are soliciting information - you'll be fine. I guess people are just hopelessly uneducated about it.