I propose Giggs' Law; When someone reports an editorial error in a post on an online forum, there will be at least one editorial error within the complaining post.
This is in addition to Muphry's Law; Any post pointing out typographical or grammatical errors will itself have errors of the same nature.
Apologies for replying to myself, but I should point out two things. Firstly, I hate football. It's corrupt, boring, and too political. Secondly, he's called Ryan Gibbs only once, implying it's a typing error. Samzenpus, do your fucking job as an editor and EDIT THE GOD DAMN SUBMISSIONS.
Many contractors over-promise in order get a competitive advantage just to get the contract. I've seen the same type of behavior with contractors who under-bid, just to get the contract, then pile on big charges for any and all change requests. Even changes that should be cost neutral.
But they get the contract.
Any contractor who claims that a delay is because "we have more than one customer" deserves a bad review. It means that they over-promised multiple customers and they sent your job to the bottom of their priority list.
I guess they learned this from the big boy telco's or similar. Over-subscribing and pissing on everyone's expectations, then making excuses, seems to make a lot of money.
Give honest time and cost estimates and customers will give good reviews.
No. What will happen is you'll get friend-of-the-family business from relatives, which you'll be asked to charge "mate's rates" for, and lose any other business to the guy who's quoting lower than cost and adding surcharges / working day-rate.
My brother runs his own building company. He hears of this daily when following up quotes.
You think that's the worst mistake in the article? If you were ever exposed to "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" you'll already know that Dr. Jones is well up on his "space archaeology" already.
If anything this is another instance of life imitating art, even if it is some of the most atrocious "art" you've ever had the misfortune to witness.
I don't install apps which ask for permission to anything I don't see it requiring access to. I only install apps which require Internet Access as they are ad-supported, and that is a condition of using the app for free.
There are many apps which I have "missed out" on using because of this policy, but I'll be honest here; I don't feel like I've missed anything at all.
This fine-grained control is seriously making me consider voiding my warranty, though.
Look at the early termination provisions in your contract. They will stipulate that they can change the terms at any time, and you have 30 days to notify them if you do not accept the changed terms. If you don't notify them, you are put on the new tariff. If you do, they take your handset back and cut off your service.
Shaping is like putting a bus lane / car pool lane on the motorway / freeway; Buses and car pool drivers can move through quicker, at the expense of car traffic having one less lane on the motorway, much like VOIP would be given priority over BitTorrent, or somesuch, but the cars and buses are all capable of going at maximum speed (should traffic allow).
Throttling is like variable speed limits. In the interest of keeping traffic moving freely across the whole motorway, the speed of heavily trafficked areas is slowed down so it doesn't cause congestion. 70MPH becomes 50MPH in the same way that 10Mbit becomes 2Mbit.
Data caps are like a bastard child of toll roads; You've driven a certain distance on this road which is covered by vehicle excise or fuel tax, now you have pay a toll. To travel further on this road, you pay more tolls. You can drive only so far each month on the toll roads for free.
I dunno, you suggest the systematic murder and possible torture (the 'test animals' part there)of other human beings who have done nothing wrong other than having the bad luck to contract a horrible disease.
The alternative opinion is that society would allow those who are incapable of contributing to society in any meaningful way to have a lasting and important impact on the future of humanity by helping to prevent or cure debilitating diseases. Some people who feel that they have no purpose in life, due to debilitating / terminal illness, may be grateful for that opportunity, which you would deny them based upon your own maybe misguided morality.
FYI, I often take the position of "Devil's Advocate" purely in the interest of debate. This may, or may not, be my actual opinion.
You're missing the tie-breaker: Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve. This loops from your 10th vertebrae down into the chest cavity, under the aorta, and back up to the larynx.
The only answers to this from religion are either "bad design" implying that God is fallible and can make mistakes, or "God works in mysterious ways / is testing our faith" which are thought-terminating cliches.
If Sony do that to one developer, even one much smaller than Rockstar, they lose all ability to offer exclusive console titles. No publisher will release Sony-only titles as they lose their entire business if Sony decide it doesn't like them.
On reflection, I think this could be a Very Good Thing.
Well, they definitely need to keep the farming of shrimp protected, lest there be none to cook on the outdoor coal-based grill.
There's also the ongoing propaganda war in Europe and the US, pushing Castlemain XXXX and Fosters as exotic imported beverages from the other side of the planet, instead of the chilled "used water" it really is.
Money (i.e. fiat currency) is worth the value the government assign to it by means of accepting it as a method of taxation. If I can't pay my tax debts with it, then its value is absolutely only what I so decide it to be, if it has any at all. If I can't trade that money with somebody else for goods or services, it has no worth at all. We can argue about barter, if you wish, but that's not the point here. Of course your car has worth, but you can't give 20% of One Car to pay the tax man.
You're arguing the point of scarce resources. Your water is very valuable to me... Should we be in the desert, as you say. If we're in a lake, your water is not worth a lot at all. Your car is valuable to you in that it provides with you convenient transport, and that is the value you, as a person, attribute to it. Intrinsically it is useless; It acquires worth when a person demonstrates a need for it. Your car is worth nothing to the thirsty man in the desert.
Bitcoin may well be ignored totally, or it could become the basis for online transactions in the future, but either way it depends on people to agree to trade goods and services for Bitcoin in order for it to gain value. Otherwise it's just wasted cycles.
Somewhat related to your point; Daniel Kinge, creator and owner of Sparklebox (a website packed with great primary education resources he spent many years creating) also happens to be in jail for creating and possession of indecent images of children. A lot of UK schools have blocked Sparklebox because of this. Personally, I think it is a little short sighted and smacks of knee-jerk response, as there was no evidence to show that Sparklebox was in any way used to groom or harvest the details of children for sexual predation, yet teachers are now "deprived" of the educational content he created.
I say "deprived" as many teachers access the site from home and bring the resources in on memory sticks or printed paper. The guy deserves to be in jail for his crimes, of which there are maybe a handful more abhorrent, but that doesn't stop him being a very good teacher.
Don't think of it as printing money, think of it as investing in stock. You're "purchasing" a commodity which in the future will become scarce. It may be a desirable commodity, it may fall flat on it's face. Remember, however, that all things are worth as much as the value people attribute.
Plus, as each bitcoin is verifiable, there is zero room for forgery.
I forget a lot of what he said, but one of the points which stuck out for me was that Terry kept the keys / passwords out of the key management system, which was against policy. He kept the Keys to the Kingdom in his head, which is just bad IT policy. He also cleaned the backup configs on switches so that any reboots would essentially wipe them clean.
Like I said, a/. poster was on the jury. He'll chip in with better information than anyone else. As for the fine... Well, if he doesn't have that money, he'll default like everyone else would and live off welfare. Shows the system works, eh?
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed.
My first innovative idea: Band together with the other 19 people and make use of the $2m you've been given.
1) Poorly researched, out of date information.
2) Inaccurate, inflammatory headline.
3) Short, information-free stub.
Sure seems like him.
I propose Giggs' Law; When someone reports an editorial error in a post on an online forum, there will be at least one editorial error within the complaining post.
This is in addition to Muphry's Law; Any post pointing out typographical or grammatical errors will itself have errors of the same nature.
Apologies for replying to myself, but I should point out two things. Firstly, I hate football. It's corrupt, boring, and too political. Secondly, he's called Ryan Gibbs only once, implying it's a typing error. Samzenpus, do your fucking job as an editor and EDIT THE GOD DAMN SUBMISSIONS.
Furthermore, his name is Ryan Giggs.
Only one of the most famous English football players in the world. He's got a fucking OBE, for christ's sake.
Many contractors over-promise in order get a competitive advantage just to get the contract. I've seen the same type of behavior with contractors who under-bid, just to get the contract, then pile on big charges for any and all change requests. Even changes that should be cost neutral.
But they get the contract.
Any contractor who claims that a delay is because "we have more than one customer" deserves a bad review. It means that they over-promised multiple customers and they sent your job to the bottom of their priority list.
I guess they learned this from the big boy telco's or similar. Over-subscribing and pissing on everyone's expectations, then making excuses, seems to make a lot of money.
Give honest time and cost estimates and customers will give good reviews.
No. What will happen is you'll get friend-of-the-family business from relatives, which you'll be asked to charge "mate's rates" for, and lose any other business to the guy who's quoting lower than cost and adding surcharges / working day-rate.
My brother runs his own building company. He hears of this daily when following up quotes.
You think that's the worst mistake in the article? If you were ever exposed to "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" you'll already know that Dr. Jones is well up on his "space archaeology" already.
If anything this is another instance of life imitating art, even if it is some of the most atrocious "art" you've ever had the misfortune to witness.
I don't install apps which ask for permission to anything I don't see it requiring access to. I only install apps which require Internet Access as they are ad-supported, and that is a condition of using the app for free.
There are many apps which I have "missed out" on using because of this policy, but I'll be honest here; I don't feel like I've missed anything at all.
This fine-grained control is seriously making me consider voiding my warranty, though.
Look at the early termination provisions in your contract. They will stipulate that they can change the terms at any time, and you have 30 days to notify them if you do not accept the changed terms. If you don't notify them, you are put on the new tariff. If you do, they take your handset back and cut off your service.
Standard industry practice.
If the important information was in the first paragraph, you'd read it then leave the site. That's bad for Ad revenue.
Expect more sites to be laid out like this.
Here comes the Press Release train! Next stop; Slashdot! Any details to disembark? Any at all? Nope, ok then, onwards to the next destination!
Seriously? One sentence? GFY submitter and editor both.
It's car analogy time!
Shaping is like putting a bus lane / car pool lane on the motorway / freeway; Buses and car pool drivers can move through quicker, at the expense of car traffic having one less lane on the motorway, much like VOIP would be given priority over BitTorrent, or somesuch, but the cars and buses are all capable of going at maximum speed (should traffic allow).
Throttling is like variable speed limits. In the interest of keeping traffic moving freely across the whole motorway, the speed of heavily trafficked areas is slowed down so it doesn't cause congestion. 70MPH becomes 50MPH in the same way that 10Mbit becomes 2Mbit.
Data caps are like a bastard child of toll roads; You've driven a certain distance on this road which is covered by vehicle excise or fuel tax, now you have pay a toll. To travel further on this road, you pay more tolls. You can drive only so far each month on the toll roads for free.
HTH.
Further evidence of a music career preceding physics
Seriously, though; The music industry can keep Blue.
I dunno, you suggest the systematic murder and possible torture (the 'test animals' part there)of other human beings who have done nothing wrong other than having the bad luck to contract a horrible disease.
The alternative opinion is that society would allow those who are incapable of contributing to society in any meaningful way to have a lasting and important impact on the future of humanity by helping to prevent or cure debilitating diseases. Some people who feel that they have no purpose in life, due to debilitating / terminal illness, may be grateful for that opportunity, which you would deny them based upon your own maybe misguided morality.
FYI, I often take the position of "Devil's Advocate" purely in the interest of debate. This may, or may not, be my actual opinion.
You're missing the tie-breaker: Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve. This loops from your 10th vertebrae down into the chest cavity, under the aorta, and back up to the larynx.
The only answers to this from religion are either "bad design" implying that God is fallible and can make mistakes, or "God works in mysterious ways / is testing our faith" which are thought-terminating cliches.
Alchemy does work; Lead to Gold was done in the 80's.
Unfortunately, creating gold from lead requires the building of a particle collider first. Kind of a downside, economically.
If Sony do that to one developer, even one much smaller than Rockstar, they lose all ability to offer exclusive console titles. No publisher will release Sony-only titles as they lose their entire business if Sony decide it doesn't like them.
On reflection, I think this could be a Very Good Thing.
One could rephrase that argument a bit and say, "we haven't had a single terrorist attack since Apple released the iPhone
Does this mean people have to stop bashing Apple and the iPhone? Also, does that protection need to be extended to the iPad?
If Apple products help prevent terrorism, it means that if you bought an Android or WinMob 7 phone, you're a terrorist sympathiser!
Bread and circuses, my friend.
Bread and circuses.
Well, they definitely need to keep the farming of shrimp protected, lest there be none to cook on the outdoor coal-based grill.
There's also the ongoing propaganda war in Europe and the US, pushing Castlemain XXXX and Fosters as exotic imported beverages from the other side of the planet, instead of the chilled "used water" it really is.
Mate.
so YOUR the asshole that makes my car insurance rates go up!
so you're the asshole ruining english.
So you're the asshole ruining English.
Muphry's Law
Money (i.e. fiat currency) is worth the value the government assign to it by means of accepting it as a method of taxation. If I can't pay my tax debts with it, then its value is absolutely only what I so decide it to be, if it has any at all. If I can't trade that money with somebody else for goods or services, it has no worth at all. We can argue about barter, if you wish, but that's not the point here. Of course your car has worth, but you can't give 20% of One Car to pay the tax man.
You're arguing the point of scarce resources. Your water is very valuable to me... Should we be in the desert, as you say. If we're in a lake, your water is not worth a lot at all. Your car is valuable to you in that it provides with you convenient transport, and that is the value you, as a person, attribute to it. Intrinsically it is useless; It acquires worth when a person demonstrates a need for it. Your car is worth nothing to the thirsty man in the desert.
Bitcoin may well be ignored totally, or it could become the basis for online transactions in the future, but either way it depends on people to agree to trade goods and services for Bitcoin in order for it to gain value. Otherwise it's just wasted cycles.
Somewhat related to your point; Daniel Kinge, creator and owner of Sparklebox (a website packed with great primary education resources he spent many years creating) also happens to be in jail for creating and possession of indecent images of children. A lot of UK schools have blocked Sparklebox because of this. Personally, I think it is a little short sighted and smacks of knee-jerk response, as there was no evidence to show that Sparklebox was in any way used to groom or harvest the details of children for sexual predation, yet teachers are now "deprived" of the educational content he created.
I say "deprived" as many teachers access the site from home and bring the resources in on memory sticks or printed paper. The guy deserves to be in jail for his crimes, of which there are maybe a handful more abhorrent, but that doesn't stop him being a very good teacher.
Don't think of it as printing money, think of it as investing in stock. You're "purchasing" a commodity which in the future will become scarce. It may be a desirable commodity, it may fall flat on it's face. Remember, however, that all things are worth as much as the value people attribute.
Plus, as each bitcoin is verifiable, there is zero room for forgery.
I forget a lot of what he said, but one of the points which stuck out for me was that Terry kept the keys / passwords out of the key management system, which was against policy. He kept the Keys to the Kingdom in his head, which is just bad IT policy. He also cleaned the backup configs on switches so that any reboots would essentially wipe them clean.
/. poster was on the jury. He'll chip in with better information than anyone else. As for the fine... Well, if he doesn't have that money, he'll default like everyone else would and live off welfare. Shows the system works, eh?
Like I said, a