The vast majority of Google's services came about like this:
Jim: "Sucks to be you Bob, doing work on a Tuesday. I'm "working" on my "personal project" today."
Bob: "All you do is browse the web all day."
Jim (browsing the web all day): "Hey Bob look at this!"
Bob: "COOL! We should do that."
Jim: "Fuck it, let's just buy them out."
This includes: Docs, Earth, Maps, Voice, and a couple others.
It's not only MS that buys out and rebrands. It's neither good nor bad, but to ignore it and claim Google is doing amazing new things is naive. To ignore it and denounce MS for the same practice (as many do, not necessarily you) smacks of fanboyism.
While scumbag scammers need to go to jail, they should go to jail for being scumbag scammers.
It sounds like they couldn't get this guy for a real crime, so they decided trump up fraud charges and fish out people who fell for the scam and enter a judgment of $3,200,000.00 against him.
That's fine. If the fraud charges are valid they'll withstand appeals. If he covered his ass with "results not typical" and etc., then he should win the appeals.
The move to hold him in contempt of court until he pays up is a thinly veiled attempt to put him in prison ("justice" for his non-criminal crimes) while he works on further appeals. If he hands over the deed and otherwise pays up, it'll bankrupt him so he can't afford to proceed with further appeals.
Courts have way too much power in regards to putting you in jail if you can't afford whatever it's been decided you owe.
People need to pay their debts, and cough up for actual damages, and courts should have the power to take your assets if need be. But a lot of judges act like 12 year olds with an @ sign on IRC and abuse thier power to no end in order to shoehorn their idea of justice in.
The typical bullshit is "Pay up or go to prison. Your choice.". When a person can't pay (see 95% of "deadbeat dads"), prison isn't a choice - it's a jail sentence for a private debt that should be settled between the parties in arbitration and, if necessary, asset valuation and seizure.
That's some old world shit we were supposed to have left behind.
Either go Windows or go Linux. Macs are the worst of both worlds, plus they cost a hell of a lot more and have terribly unreliable hardware (but don't worry - your complaints will be ignored and any problems will be features!).
If I were the one who had to support the machines (software or hardware) I'd be fighting tooth and nail against it - to the point of where I'd say "It's me or the Macs".
Ever replace a backlight in a fucking Apple Cinema Display? That's 3 layers (and a thousand assorted screws and layers of tape) deeper than Apple's documentation (for certified technicians) goes.
Yeah, NetRestore is what we used I believe. It works. Except when it doesn't. At least capacious portable hard drives come in the 2.5" size now. You'll be needing to use that method for the few machines that simply refuse to image over the net.
Play games Cheat during tests Think less about the process and more about the result
I'm talking all the way from K-12 and into college. If a kid slaps F(x) = x^3 into a calculator, they see a fun little graph. If you give them some graph paper and a pencil, they get a messy little graph and a lot of learnin' after a much longer time.
The time invested is very much worth the extra understanding.
Having them then graph x^3 + 5, X^3 -5, X^3 + 2x, etc. etc. labeling all the fun little points and lines is a complete waste of time.
If you were a large school district or state school board you wouldn't give a shit about the students or their parents. You'd give a shit about whether or not any calculator manufacturer will be throwing money your way, or, barring that, which calculators your teachers are most familiar with.
The testing board is retarded for allowing any calculators.
I've taken the SAT (and various SAT 2 tests, mainly the math and sciency ones).
1: Who the fuck needs a calculator for that shit? 2: If you DO need a calculator for that shit, STOP. Go directly to 1st grade. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
More like foolishly picked up a DSi knowing full well it dropped the GBA slot, and also foolishly threw away your DSLite, DS, Game Boy Micro, Game Boy Advance SP, Game Boy Advance, etc.
You might as well cry about the original DS ot supporting original Game Boy and Game Boy Color games.
Benefits? Perqs? A green cookie on Saint Patrick's Day?
-- Monty Burns reads the proposed union contract, ``Last Exit to Springfield''
Burns flashes back to simpler days. Springfield, 1909, back when
people smashed atoms by hand. Grandfather Burns catches one of his
employees trying to steal some atoms and has him taken away.
You can't treat the working man this way. One day, we'll form a union
and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve! Then we'll go
too far, and get corrupt and shiftless, and the Japanese will eat us alive!
My home town nearly went to zero Kevins back in 1978.
It was a particularly cold winter, and we were already down to 3 Kevins (due to their low popularity at the time).
Kevin Thomas had flown out to be with his son's family for a wedding and got stuck in Boston for a whole week due to the weather. 2 Kevins left.
Kevin Lemmer was rushed to the hospital during my shift. I still remember the call from the EMTs as the ambulance was rushing toward us. "It's Lemmer. He's in bad shape. Drove right into the fucking ditch." We called the time of death at 6:15 PM.
At 6:16, all eyes turned to room 2217. Kevin Spencer was 82 and on his death bed with leukemia. His family being Catholic, he had already been given his last rights. If he couldn't hold out until Kevin Thomas returned, we would be at zero Kevins. Sure, we had 4 perfectly healthy Calvins, but they're just not the same.
It was 7:15 when Carla Brooks and her husband James burst through the main entrance. "She's not due for 2 weeks!", James exclaimed. As the staff bustled around getting the Brookses settled, they exchanged darting glances with each other. This was their first child, and they wanted to keep the baby's sex a secret. Of course, in a small town, secrets don't get kept. Nearly all of the hospital staff new that the child about to rip open Mrs. Brooks was indeed a boy.
The delivery was routine, and Kevin Brooks was born healthy, if a tad underweight, at 10:52 PM. Kevin Spencer was pronounced dead at 10:54.
It was, as they say, a close one. Kevin Thomas arrived two days later, the weather having finally cleared up. To this day, we still rib him about it.
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The vast majority of Google's services came about like this:
Jim: "Sucks to be you Bob, doing work on a Tuesday. I'm "working" on my "personal project" today."
Bob: "All you do is browse the web all day."
Jim (browsing the web all day): "Hey Bob look at this!"
Bob: "COOL! We should do that."
Jim: "Fuck it, let's just buy them out."
This includes:
Docs, Earth, Maps, Voice, and a couple others.
It's not only MS that buys out and rebrands.
It's neither good nor bad, but to ignore it and claim Google is doing amazing new things is naive. To ignore it and denounce MS for the same practice (as many do, not necessarily you) smacks of fanboyism.
While scumbag scammers need to go to jail, they should go to jail for being scumbag scammers.
It sounds like they couldn't get this guy for a real crime, so they decided trump up fraud charges and fish out people who fell for the scam and enter a judgment of $3,200,000.00 against him.
That's fine. If the fraud charges are valid they'll withstand appeals. If he covered his ass with "results not typical" and etc., then he should win the appeals.
The move to hold him in contempt of court until he pays up is a thinly veiled attempt to put him in prison ("justice" for his non-criminal crimes) while he works on further appeals. If he hands over the deed and otherwise pays up, it'll bankrupt him so he can't afford to proceed with further appeals.
Courts have way too much power in regards to putting you in jail if you can't afford whatever it's been decided you owe.
People need to pay their debts, and cough up for actual damages, and courts should have the power to take your assets if need be. But a lot of judges act like 12 year olds with an @ sign on IRC and abuse thier power to no end in order to shoehorn their idea of justice in.
The typical bullshit is "Pay up or go to prison. Your choice.". When a person can't pay (see 95% of "deadbeat dads"), prison isn't a choice - it's a jail sentence for a private debt that should be settled between the parties in arbitration and, if necessary, asset valuation and seizure.
That's some old world shit we were supposed to have left behind.
Applecare?
Our shop had in-house apple certified techs.
All replacement parts were free, and I believe next-day delivery.
They even admitted to problems.
You have 2 old macs that work.
Great.
I've seen them drop like flies compared to their PC (various brands) counterparts.
Which has nothing to with the topic at hand.
And cell phones are fucking stupid - they don't lower the power when they're near a tower.
They lower the power when there's a high SNR.
And if you're near a tower, odds are a million other people are, and your SNR will actually suck, even though you have "more bars in more places".
Why?
Either go Windows or go Linux.
Macs are the worst of both worlds, plus they cost a hell of a lot more and have terribly unreliable hardware (but don't worry - your complaints will be ignored and any problems will be features!).
If I were the one who had to support the machines (software or hardware) I'd be fighting tooth and nail against it - to the point of where I'd say "It's me or the Macs".
Ever replace a backlight in a fucking Apple Cinema Display? That's 3 layers (and a thousand assorted screws and layers of tape) deeper than Apple's documentation (for certified technicians) goes.
Yeah, NetRestore is what we used I believe.
It works. Except when it doesn't. At least capacious portable hard drives come in the 2.5" size now. You'll be needing to use that method for the few machines that simply refuse to image over the net.
The scary thing about Stan Lee is that he believes his own bullshit, and he never fucking shuts up about how great he and "his" creations are.
You are wrong.
A dictionary.
Get one.
Mike Rowe had to replace a bunch of those bad boys in a hurricane barrier.
If you let them have a calculator, they will:
Play games
Cheat during tests
Think less about the process and more about the result
I'm talking all the way from K-12 and into college.
If a kid slaps F(x) = x^3 into a calculator, they see a fun little graph.
If you give them some graph paper and a pencil, they get a messy little graph and a lot of learnin' after a much longer time.
The time invested is very much worth the extra understanding.
Having them then graph x^3 + 5, X^3 -5, X^3 + 2x, etc. etc. labeling all the fun little points and lines is a complete waste of time.
If I were teaching a class, my exercises would have nice round numbers and relevant information provided.
You're required to show your work anyway.
I agree - there's no reason for tedious lookups or calculation. But you need to know how to do them.
Coursework and tests should use nice round numbers that play nice, or have the necessary information (log of X is Y, etc.) included.
And there's nothing wrong with slide rules - they help you visualize the scale - far more useful than a table or a calculator.
If you were a large school district or state school board you wouldn't give a shit about the students or their parents. You'd give a shit about whether or not any calculator manufacturer will be throwing money your way, or, barring that, which calculators your teachers are most familiar with.
The testing board is retarded for allowing any calculators.
I've taken the SAT (and various SAT 2 tests, mainly the math and sciency ones).
1: Who the fuck needs a calculator for that shit?
2: If you DO need a calculator for that shit, STOP. Go directly to 1st grade. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
Students have never needed calculators to learn math.
And they never will.
Oh, you're talking about the STUPID students.
Carry on.
If I were to teach a math class at any level, there would be no calculators of any sort allowed.
Since when did running a 50 foot extension cord instead of a 5 foot shorty divide the power used by 100?
Insensitive cods don't have feelings, you insensitive clod!
Or you know, the only handhelds worth owning.
A Gameboy Advance SP (GB -> GBA), and a DSi (DS -> DSi & DSiWare).
Fascinating.
No hands, typing with your penis, and you manage fewer typos than a typical slashdot post.
More like foolishly picked up a DSi knowing full well it dropped the GBA slot, and also foolishly threw away your DSLite, DS, Game Boy Micro, Game Boy Advance SP, Game Boy Advance, etc.
You might as well cry about the original DS ot supporting original Game Boy and Game Boy Color games.
Fire, magnets, virii, water, no fool-proof encryption, still laborious to make and store and manage copies.
Mod parent funny, and yourselves as dumb.
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Maxtor (< Quantum, Seagate (< Maxtor.
(< is the buyout (Pac Man) symbol.
(<>) is for mergers.
Atoms? Cheap? There is a hidden cost, my friend!
Benefits? Perqs? A green cookie on Saint Patrick's Day?
-- Monty Burns reads the proposed union contract, ``Last Exit to Springfield''
Burns flashes back to simpler days. Springfield, 1909, back when
people smashed atoms by hand. Grandfather Burns catches one of his
employees trying to steal some atoms and has him taken away.
You can't treat the working man this way. One day, we'll form a union
and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve! Then we'll go
too far, and get corrupt and shiftless, and the Japanese will eat us alive!
So it's kind of like a figid bitch.
Whoooooooooooooooooooooooosh
My home town nearly went to zero Kevins back in 1978.
It was a particularly cold winter, and we were already down to 3 Kevins (due to their low popularity at the time).
Kevin Thomas had flown out to be with his son's family for a wedding and got stuck in Boston for a whole week due to the weather. 2 Kevins left.
Kevin Lemmer was rushed to the hospital during my shift. I still remember the call from the EMTs as the ambulance was rushing toward us. "It's Lemmer. He's in bad shape. Drove right into the fucking ditch." We called the time of death at 6:15 PM.
At 6:16, all eyes turned to room 2217. Kevin Spencer was 82 and on his death bed with leukemia. His family being Catholic, he had already been given his last rights. If he couldn't hold out until Kevin Thomas returned, we would be at zero Kevins. Sure, we had 4 perfectly healthy Calvins, but they're just not the same.
It was 7:15 when Carla Brooks and her husband James burst through the main entrance. "She's not due for 2 weeks!", James exclaimed. As the staff bustled around getting the Brookses settled, they exchanged darting glances with each other. This was their first child, and they wanted to keep the baby's sex a secret. Of course, in a small town, secrets don't get kept. Nearly all of the hospital staff new that the child about to rip open Mrs. Brooks was indeed a boy.
The delivery was routine, and Kevin Brooks was born healthy, if a tad underweight, at 10:52 PM. Kevin Spencer was pronounced dead at 10:54.
It was, as they say, a close one. Kevin Thomas arrived two days later, the weather having finally cleared up. To this day, we still rib him about it.
Cedar Falls is currently at 5 Kevins.