Google has been in business now (if your a 20 something) for over half our lives, and this was a sped up version of what an "average" person may have Googled over their lifetime.
If you're a 20 something, WTF do you think you know about an "average" lifetime?
At best, this was Google shorthand for the plot of some hackneyed romantic movie.
GP is talking about people who don't want to buy from Amazon for some reason or other. The point being, rather than bitch about Amazon, if you are inclined to do so, just go elsewhere.
BTW, most bookstores would be happy to special order any book you please. Moreover, rather than limit yourself to your "agent's" evidently skewed and limited selection, you could search the entire internet for titles and have your local shop obtain it for you.
Heck, even your local library will often special order books and give you first dibs on reading it for free.
I buy a lot of books from Amazon myself, because it is convenient. But I know better than to fancy them as working on my behalf. They are just another business balancing my potential desires against scores of millions of others.
My old 1994 Chrysler New Yorker had a similar problem with cruise control but it wasn't as acute as was Steve describes. If I was going up any small hill on a highway and I hit the cruise control speed up button once, twice, three times the car would try to accelerate a little and then rev up like mad and try to speed up by almost +10 miles per hour until it was going much faster than I intended, making me hold the coast button for a while unit it slows down or by turning off cruise control all together with the Off button or by a light tap on the breaks.
Sounds more like unrealistic expectations than a fault in the car. Any time where there are sudden changes in the grade, CC may have trouble figuring out how to respond.
If you hit the button and it doesn't work the way you want, you should immediately resume full control of the car. Repeatedly creating a situation of extreme acceleration and remedying it with the "coast" button is madness.
It sounds like Woz has debugged the same problem -- cruise control is not magic.
For those that say you need a car to have a job and live all I gotta say is people, like the woman you mentioned, should have thought about that. The thing is though she doesn't have to think about it because her licence won't be taken away.
People like this woman will keep driving even after losing a license. They "need" to for blah, blah, blah.
There really is no rational remedy for habitual dangerous drivers in a car-centric society. We'd have to imprison them or roll out some universal means of preventing someone from driving a car without authorization (i.e. some kind of device in every car). Neither of those are practical, so we are left with moral suasion and the mayhem caused by people who are immune to it.
So, there should be tests. Depending on your score, you get to have (or not have) certain things in your vehicle. ..
And professional race car drivers should be able to drive 200mph (or whatever the average speed of their racing discipline) on the streets and highways. After all, they've demonstrated their ability to "handle" different levels of speed. Right?
Some folks should not be on the road. All folks should not be diving while using phone.
Exactly. If they won't come to you, go to them and do your job at their convenience, not according to some policy set by a subordinate.
And here is a bonus -- you will create the impression of being a useful, dedicated employee rather than that of a peevish dweeb who doesn't know his place in the pecking order.
I often feel like I am battling the Apple computer my employer provides for development work. Window management is a major PITA, IMO. This is no doubt a party personal issue, after years of working on other systems, but I fault Apple for dictating that I interact in the manner that they deem best rather allowing me to choose methods that, whether they like it or not, are conventional and intuitive.
Oh, and the scroll wheel on the mouse just doesn't work because it is not cleanable.
I The whole thing sounds like a cheap excuse for providing even LESS customer service than IT departments deliver already (and most IT depts I've worked with have already been FAR from customer-friendly).
What it actually sounds like is providing more responsive "service" that amounts to commiserating over your unfulfilled IT related goals. Your project is important. IT wants to walk a mile in your shoes and really feel the pain of watching it flounder.
This way, failure is shared and everyone understands.
So an iPhone user doesn't spend $20 on a couple apps because they pirate them. Apple and software developers lose out on $20. Then, the iPhone user buys four mochas at Starbucks with the $20 they didn't spend on apps. Net loss to economy = $0.
That assumes that software is fundamentally without value (unlike, I assume, lattes which would incur a net loss to the economy if they were stolen, even if the iPhone user gave the $20 to an illegal gun seller so he could hold up the coffee shop).
Dev loses $20. That is $20 that he doesn't have to spend on latte's. Keep piling up these "Net loss to economy = $0"'s and Dev will be out of a job. Eventually, the whole industry is no longer viable. Where are the jobs going to come from now?
Your logic is fine as long as there is no difference between an economy based on selling lattes and an economy based on creative and highly skilled labor.
Fixed that for you. Piracy is not stealing, they still have the product to sell.
So if you work and don't get paid, that's not stealing because you still have more time to give.
To support piracy is to advocate slavery.
Either you are posting from an advanced age where time travel is possible and people are thus able to work the same day as many times as they are able to find employers to pay them for that specific set of hours, or you are an idiot.
Just imagine some TSA creeps snickering at an image of your girlfriend's, your father's or your mother's naked body.
You know, I was kind of annoyed by the concept until you put it just as you did. I imagined it. I didn't care.
I've realized that I don't care about some "TSA creep" snickering about my body, or anything else of mine, or anyone else's body for that matter. By definition of their being a "creep" their opinion is irrelevant to me. Can they match person X with their image? Doubtful, but probably possible. But even then, there is nothing stopping anyone from [i]claiming[/i] a vague or doctored image corresponds to me either.
I'd much rather have them view me remotely in ever intimate detail than lay their hands on me or my possessions. I can't control what someone does with their eyes. Touching me and my possessions is the [i]real[/i] invasion, IMO.
If these scanners speed up the pointless, arbitrary and farcical "security" line, that is a win for dignity right there. Forcing me, a peaceful, law-abiding adult to queue up like livestock and waste my time are two more [i]tangible[/i] indignities that I would gladly trade for the chance that some loser might get a thrill out of my body scan.
as far as I know they have to be aerosolized in a cooking spray or finely crushed and thrown into the air as "nut dust".
Well then, as far as you know, somone allergic to nuts has a legitimate fear be being trapped in closed space with recirculating air along with the usual ratio of mouth-breathers.
The thing is, when you get older you will realize that there is only so much opportunity in the world and only so much of your time left to take advantage of it. When people start to compete over those opportunities, "irrelevant" details come into play.
ABLE TO GET THE JOB DONE is not enough. We have 10% unemployment! There is a surplus of people who able to get the vast majority of jobs done.
You act like your generation is going to abolish prudishness and hypocrisy. Good luck with that.
Before trolls start yelling about how "OMGZ LINUX ISN'T SECURE HAHAHA" and things like that, let me tell you something: because GNU/Linux is so open and configurable, malware like this can be very easily removed. All you have to do is run a few commands in a terminal to remove this.
Before trolls start yelling about how "OMGZ WINDOZE AV SOFTWARE IS COMPLICATED HAHAHA" and things like that, let me tell you something: because Windows is so accessible, AV software like this can be very easily deployed. All you have to do is click a few icons in the Start Menu to remove this. Blah, blah, blah
On Linux and the like, everything is simple if you already know what you want to do. Otherwise, you have to trust unaccountable internet entities to provide you abstruse commands to run and hope they aren't trying to trick you into doing even more damage to your system. It should be obvious why that is a no way to combat malware.
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Google has been in business now (if your a 20 something) for over half our lives, and this was a sped up version of what an "average" person may have Googled over their lifetime.
If you're a 20 something, WTF do you think you know about an "average" lifetime?
At best, this was Google shorthand for the plot of some hackneyed romantic movie.
GP is talking about people who don't want to buy from Amazon for some reason or other. The point being, rather than bitch about Amazon, if you are inclined to do so, just go elsewhere.
BTW, most bookstores would be happy to special order any book you please. Moreover, rather than limit yourself to your "agent's" evidently skewed and limited selection, you could search the entire internet for titles and have your local shop obtain it for you.
Heck, even your local library will often special order books and give you first dibs on reading it for free.
I buy a lot of books from Amazon myself, because it is convenient. But I know better than to fancy them as working on my behalf. They are just another business balancing my potential desires against scores of millions of others.
My old 1994 Chrysler New Yorker had a similar problem with cruise control but it wasn't as acute as was Steve describes. If I was going up any small hill on a highway and I hit the cruise control speed up button once, twice, three times the car would try to accelerate a little and then rev up like mad and try to speed up by almost +10 miles per hour until it was going much faster than I intended, making me hold the coast button for a while unit it slows down or by turning off cruise control all together with the Off button or by a light tap on the breaks.
Sounds more like unrealistic expectations than a fault in the car. Any time where there are sudden changes in the grade, CC may have trouble figuring out how to respond.
If you hit the button and it doesn't work the way you want, you should immediately resume full control of the car. Repeatedly creating a situation of extreme acceleration and remedying it with the "coast" button is madness.
It sounds like Woz has debugged the same problem -- cruise control is not magic.
I don't really see the iPad as a "personal computer", but an appliance, a bit like a washing machine or a microwave oven.
Or the cable box that you don't own either?
For those that say you need a car to have a job and live all I gotta say is people, like the woman you mentioned, should have thought about that. The thing is though she doesn't have to think about it because her licence won't be taken away.
People like this woman will keep driving even after losing a license. They "need" to for blah, blah, blah.
There really is no rational remedy for habitual dangerous drivers in a car-centric society. We'd have to imprison them or roll out some universal means of preventing someone from driving a car without authorization (i.e. some kind of device in every car). Neither of those are practical, so we are left with moral suasion and the mayhem caused by people who are immune to it.
So, there should be tests. Depending on your score, you get to have (or not have) certain things in your vehicle. . .
And professional race car drivers should be able to drive 200mph (or whatever the average speed of their racing discipline) on the streets and highways. After all, they've demonstrated their ability to "handle" different levels of speed. Right?
Some folks should not be on the road. All folks should not be diving while using phone.
Exactly. If they won't come to you, go to them and do your job at their convenience, not according to some policy set by a subordinate.
And here is a bonus -- you will create the impression of being a useful, dedicated employee rather than that of a peevish dweeb who doesn't know his place in the pecking order.
I often feel like I am battling the Apple computer my employer provides for development work. Window management is a major PITA, IMO. This is no doubt a party personal issue, after years of working on other systems, but I fault Apple for dictating that I interact in the manner that they deem best rather allowing me to choose methods that, whether they like it or not, are conventional and intuitive.
Oh, and the scroll wheel on the mouse just doesn't work because it is not cleanable.
At least by the convention in question. "Apple is the choice of creative types" is juxtaposed against the "PCs are for techies and nerds" stereotype.
Something tells me that the artist would be sufficiently gratified by such a pointless act of spite.
Because I am certainly entertained by his portfolio.
All of his newest pieces of 'art' just seem to be money makers for himself that prey on people who want to seem like they are hip to the 'art scene.'
Is any seller of anything that is "preying" on someone's "wants" a scam artist now? Just wants that you disapprove of?
Chow Yun Fat is turning 55 this year.
I The whole thing sounds like a cheap excuse for providing even LESS customer service than IT departments deliver already (and most IT depts I've worked with have already been FAR from customer-friendly).
What it actually sounds like is providing more responsive "service" that amounts to commiserating over your unfulfilled IT related goals. Your project is important. IT wants to walk a mile in your shoes and really feel the pain of watching it flounder.
This way, failure is shared and everyone understands.
So an iPhone user doesn't spend $20 on a couple apps because they pirate them. Apple and software developers lose out on $20. Then, the iPhone user buys four mochas at Starbucks with the $20 they didn't spend on apps. Net loss to economy = $0.
That assumes that software is fundamentally without value (unlike, I assume, lattes which would incur a net loss to the economy if they were stolen, even if the iPhone user gave the $20 to an illegal gun seller so he could hold up the coffee shop).
Dev loses $20. That is $20 that he doesn't have to spend on latte's. Keep piling up these "Net loss to economy = $0"'s and Dev will be out of a job. Eventually, the whole industry is no longer viable. Where are the jobs going to come from now?
Your logic is fine as long as there is no difference between an economy based on selling lattes and an economy based on creative and highly skilled labor.
Fixed that for you. Piracy is not stealing, they still have the product to sell.
So if you work and don't get paid, that's not stealing because you still have more time to give.
To support piracy is to advocate slavery.
Either you are posting from an advanced age where time travel is possible and people are thus able to work the same day as many times as they are able to find employers to pay them for that specific set of hours, or you are an idiot.
Just imagine some TSA creeps snickering at an image of your girlfriend's, your father's or your mother's naked body.
You know, I was kind of annoyed by the concept until you put it just as you did. I imagined it. I didn't care.
I've realized that I don't care about some "TSA creep" snickering about my body, or anything else of mine, or anyone else's body for that matter. By definition of their being a "creep" their opinion is irrelevant to me. Can they match person X with their image? Doubtful, but probably possible. But even then, there is nothing stopping anyone from [i]claiming[/i] a vague or doctored image corresponds to me either.
I'd much rather have them view me remotely in ever intimate detail than lay their hands on me or my possessions. I can't control what someone does with their eyes. Touching me and my possessions is the [i]real[/i] invasion, IMO.
If these scanners speed up the pointless, arbitrary and farcical "security" line, that is a win for dignity right there. Forcing me, a peaceful, law-abiding adult to queue up like livestock and waste my time are two more [i]tangible[/i] indignities that I would gladly trade for the chance that some loser might get a thrill out of my body scan.
as far as I know they have to be aerosolized in a cooking spray or finely crushed and thrown into the air as "nut dust".
Well then, as far as you know, somone allergic to nuts has a legitimate fear be being trapped in closed space with recirculating air along with the usual ratio of mouth-breathers.
Just switch to pretzels and be done with it.
Twisted logic.
It comes from the DICTIONARY.
The Philip K Dictionary.
It wasn't very good dressing at all.
See? Circumventing security has consequences, dirtbag!
1. Make sure that no luggage gets on the plane without its associated passenger (you can't blow up the plane without going along for the ride).
But we have people scalding their nuts trying to detonate their own underwear.
The thing is, when you get older you will realize that there is only so much opportunity in the world and only so much of your time left to take advantage of it. When people start to compete over those opportunities, "irrelevant" details come into play.
ABLE TO GET THE JOB DONE is not enough. We have 10% unemployment! There is a surplus of people who able to get the vast majority of jobs done.
You act like your generation is going to abolish prudishness and hypocrisy. Good luck with that.
Perhaps there is a market for flashy e-readers. I mean, netbooks are doing well enough.
And if someone wants e-books laden with flash, they should buy a damn netbook.
... cause I still get my reading material in that old standard... print.text
For now.
Before trolls start yelling about how "OMGZ LINUX ISN'T SECURE HAHAHA" and things like that, let me tell you something: because GNU/Linux is so open and configurable, malware like this can be very easily removed. All you have to do is run a few commands in a terminal to remove this.
Before trolls start yelling about how "OMGZ WINDOZE AV SOFTWARE IS COMPLICATED HAHAHA" and things like that, let me tell you something: because Windows is so accessible, AV software like this can be very easily deployed. All you have to do is click a few icons in the Start Menu to remove this. Blah, blah, blah
On Linux and the like, everything is simple if you already know what you want to do. Otherwise, you have to trust unaccountable internet entities to provide you abstruse commands to run and hope they aren't trying to trick you into doing even more damage to your system. It should be obvious why that is a no way to combat malware.